Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. Basically, if you develop a site, some other person may want to use the images that you have and rather than downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their Internet site, they could simply put links straight to your site. That way, each time a visitor opens their website, the images will be loaded from your account, thus stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, in addition to the copyright problems which may develop or that someone can be trying to trick people into thinking that they are actually on your site. In rare occasions, documents and other kinds of files can also be linked in the very same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid such situations, you could enable hotlink protection for your website.

Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting

You can easily secure your content if you create an .htaccess file inside the website’s root folder, but in case that you don't have previous experience, you could use our hotlink protection tool. The latter is included with all web hosting package deals that we offer and could be accessed through the in-house built Hepsia CP. The protection may be activated in two basic steps - select the domain or subdomain for the Internet site in question, then pick if our system should set up the .htaccess file within the primary folder or in a subfolder and you shall be ready. You do not need any computer programming skills or any experience with this type of matters, as there will be nothing else to do. If you want to turn off the protection eventually, you will be able to see all the websites that are protected within the very same section of the CP with a Delete button next to each of them.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We offer an uncomplicated solution to secure your whole content and even if you are not really tech-savvy, you'll be able to take advantage of it with a few mouse clicks. The usual technique to turn on server-side hotlink security is to set up an .htaccess file and to include a couple of directives in it. With the tool that you will find inside the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll simply have to select the Internet site which you would like to secure and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, adding all of the needed content within it. You can even use this feature for just one folder as opposed to the entire Internet site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file has to be set up. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be switched on, you could deactivate it with a single click through the exact same section of your CP.