Hotlinking, which is sometimes referred to as bandwidth theft also, identifies linking to images that are on another site. Simply, if you have a site with some images on it, another person could also build a website and instead of using their own images, they could put links straight to your images. Even though this might not be such a big problem if you have one small personal Internet site, it will be something very serious if the images are copyrighted, as someone may be aiming to copy your site and deceive people. If your hosting package deal has a restricted monthly bandwidth quota, you can run out of resources without getting actual website visitors, due to the fact that the traffic will be consumed by the other site. This is why you need to think about protecting your content from being hotlinked - not only images, but also documents, since in rare occasions other sorts of files are linked as well.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

It will not take more than several clicks to enable the hotlink security feature we offer even if this is the first hosting account that you use, since all of our Linux shared hosting services include a rather simple and easy to work with tool that will enable you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is an element of our revolutionary Hepsia Control Panel, so it features the same exact intuitive point & click interface. Once you log in to your account’s back office and navigate to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain that you want to secure from a drop-down list. If you wish to enable this function only for a particular website folder, you will have the option to do that. All sites with active hotlink protection shall appear in this section and you will be able to disable the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given Internet site and pressing the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our company offers a simple solution to secure your entire content and even if you are not quite tech-savvy, you'll be able to take full advantage of it with a few clicks. The conventional technique to enable server-side hotlink security is to generate an .htaccess file and to add a few directives inside it. With the tool that you will find in the Hepsia CP, offered with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only need to pick the site which you would like to secure and our system shall set up the .htaccess file for you, adding all the essential content within it. You could also use this option for only one folder as opposed to the entire Internet site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be created. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be enabled, you could disable it with just one click through the same section of your Control Panel.