Hotlinking is a commonly accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you build an Internet site, someone else may want to use the images you have and rather than downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their site, they may simply put links to your website. This way, whenever a visitor opens their website, the images will be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, not to mention the copyright issues that can appear or that somebody may be trying to deceive people into thinking that they are actually on your Internet site. In rare occasions, documents and other sorts of files may also be linked in the same exact way. To stop this from happening and to avoid such situations, you could enable hotlink protection for your site.

Hotlinking Protection in Website Hosting

Because our website hosting include a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to secure your content from appearing on third-party sites with literally just 2 mouse clicks, even if you don't have much experience with this type of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting CP and as soon as you open it, you will just have to select the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect. In addition, you may also pick if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You shall not need to do anything else, since our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically within the preferred location and shall add the required code inside it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection will be listed within the same section, so you can easily disable this service for any of them with a click.