Hotlinking is an expression which identifies the addition of images on a given Internet site using direct links. When you have website A, for instance, and a person creates website B and wishes to include a few images from your Internet site, they can either save the images and then include them on their site or they may simply place links on their website to the images on yours. Thus, whenever a visitor opens website B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, because the images shall load straight from your website hosting account. This technique is sometimes used for documents and other kinds of files too. If you want to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own hosting account’s resources, you are able to restrict their capability to use direct links to your files on their sites.
Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Website Hosting
You can easily shield 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 need to use our hotlink protection tool. The latter comes with all cloud website hosting package deals which we offer and could be accessed from the in-house built Hepsia CP. The protection can be enabled in two basic steps - select the domain or subdomain for the website in question, then pick if our system should create the .htaccess file within the main folder or inside a subfolder and you will be ready. You do not need any coding capabilities or any experience with this kind of matters, because there shall be nothing else to do. If you wish to remove the protection at some time, you can see all the websites that are protected in the same section of the CP with a Delete button alongside each of them.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
We provide you with an effective solution to secure your content and even if you are not really tech-savvy, you could benefit from it with a few mouse clicks. The usual approach to activate server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to include a couple of directives inside it. With the tool which you'll find in the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll simply have to choose the website which you need to secure and our system shall create the .htaccess file for you, adding all the needed content in it. You could also use this feature for only one folder rather than the entire website - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file has to be created. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be active, you may disable it with just one mouse click from the same exact section of your Control Panel.