Hotlinking is a term which describes the addition of images on a given Internet site using direct links. If you have website A, for instance, and a person creates site B and wants to include a couple of images from your Internet site, they are able to either save the images and then include them on their Internet site or they may simply place links on their site to the images on yours. As a result, each time a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, since the images will load straight from your web hosting account. This method is oftentimes used for documents and other types of files too. If you want to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own web hosting account’s resources, you can limit their ability to use direct links to your files on their sites.
Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting
It shall not take more than a couple of clicks to enable the hotlink security feature we provide even if this is the 1st website hosting account you use, because all our Linux cloud hosting come with a rather simple and easy to work with tool that will enable you to stop direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our innovative Hepsia Control Panel, so it offers the same exact intuitive point-and-click interface. Once you log in to your account’s back office and visit the Hotlink Protection section, you will simply need to select the domain or subdomain you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you would like to switch on this function only for a particular site folder, you've got the option to do that. All websites with enabled hotlink protection shall appear in this section and you could turn off the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given site and pressing the Delete button.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our company offers an uncomplicated solution to protect your whole content and even if you aren't really tech-savvy, you are able to take advantage of it with a few mouse clicks. The standard approach to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to add a couple of directives within it. With the tool that you will find within the Hepsia CP, included with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will simply have to select the website which you intend to protect and our system will create the .htaccess file for you, including all of the needed content in it. You may also use this feature for only one folder instead of the entire site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be created. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be switched on, you'll be able to deactivate it with a single mouse click from the very same section of your CP.