Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you develop a site, somebody else may want to use the images which you have and instead of downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their own website, they can simply put links straight to your website. This way, every time a visitor opens their site, the images shall be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, in addition to the copyright problems which may arise or that someone could be trying to trick people into believing that they are actually on your website. In rare occasions, documents and other sorts of files may also be linked in the very same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid such situations, you can enable hotlink protection for your website.
Hotlinking Protection in Hosting
Since our hosting plans come with a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you will be able to shield your content from displaying on third-party Internet sites with literally just 2 mouse clicks, even if you don't have very much experience with this sort of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and when you open it, you'll only need to choose the domain or subdomain you want to protect. Optionally, you could also pick if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You will not need to do anything else, due to the fact that our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically inside the needed location and shall add the required code within it. All sites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed in the same section, so you can disable this service for each of them with just a click.