Hotlinking is a term that refers to the addition of images on a particular site by using direct links. If you have website A, for example, and a person creates website B and wishes to include a few images from your site, they're able to either save the images and then add them on their site or they could simply place links on their Internet site to the images on yours. As a result, each time a visitor opens Internet site B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, since the images shall load straight from your website hosting account. This approach is typically used for documents and other sorts of files also. If you want to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own website hosting account’s resources, you'll be able to limit their ability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting
You can easily secure your content if you create an .htaccess file inside the website’s root folder, but in case that you do not have previous experience, you should use our hotlink protection tool. The latter is supplied with all shared hosting plans that we offer and could be accessed through the in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. The protection could be activated in two easy steps - select the domain or subdomain for the Internet site in question, then pick if our system should create the .htaccess file inside the primary folder or in a subfolder and you shall be good to go. You don't need any coding capabilities or any experience with this type of matters, because there shall be nothing else to do. If you wish to remove the protection eventually, you can see all the Internet sites which are protected inside the same exact section of the Control Panel with a Delete button next to each of them.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you start a semi-dedicated server account and you discover that someone is linking to your files without your approval, you can easily cut them off by enabling the hotlink security feature that we offer you. While the regular method of doing that is to set up an .htaccess file, we have a special tool which can perform this automatically and you shall only have to select the Internet site in question and to determine whether our system should generate the needed file in the main folder or inside a subfolder. The tool is a component of our customized Hepsia CP and has the exact same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it with no complications even when you have never used any hosting service before. You can switch off the hotlink security feature for any website/folder with a click through the exact same section.