Hotlinking is a term which refers to the inclusion of images on a given Internet site through direct links. If you have website A, for instance, and a person creates site B and wants to include a few images from your site, they are able to either save the images and then add them on their site or they could simply put links on their site to the images on yours. Subsequently, every time a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, because the images shall load from your website hosting account. This method is oftentimes used for documents and other kinds of files as well. If you wish to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own hosting account’s resources, you could restrict their ability to use direct links to your files on their websites.
Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Website Hosting
You can easily protect your content if you generate an .htaccess file within the website’s root folder, but just in case you do not have previous experience, you could use our hotlink protection tool. The latter comes with all cloud website hosting package deals we offer and can be accessed using the in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. The protection may be activated in 2 simple steps - pick the domain or subdomain for the site in question, then pick if our system should create the .htaccess file inside the primary folder or inside a subfolder and you'll be good to go. You do not need any computer programming skills or any experience with such matters, as there will be nothing else to do. If you wish to turn off the protection at some point, you can see all the Internet sites that are protected inside the same section of the CP with a Delete button alongside each one of them.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
We provide an effective solution to shield your whole content and even if you aren't really tech-savvy, you are able to take advantage of it with a couple of clicks. The usual way to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to set up an .htaccess file and to add a couple of directives in it. With the tool which you'll find in the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll simply need to choose the site which you want to secure and our system shall create the .htaccess file for you, adding all of the needed content within it. You could also use this function for just one folder as opposed to the entire Internet site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file should be set up. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be active, you'll be able to disable it with a single click through the very same section of your CP.