Hotlinking Protection

Understand the logic behind the hotlink protection - how it operates and when to make use of it.

Hotlinking is a commonly accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Basically, if you develop an Internet site, somebody else may want to use the images which you have and rather than downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their site, they can simply put links to your website. This way, whenever a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, hence stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright problems which can present themselves or that someone may be trying to deceive people into believing that they're actually on your Internet site. In rare instances, documents and other sorts of files could also be linked in the exact same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid such situations, you may permit hotlink protection for your site.

: Hotlinking Protection in Website Hosting

Due to the fact that our Linux website hosting feature a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to protect your content from showing on third-party sites with literally no more than a couple of clicks, even if you do not have a lot of experience with such matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and once you open it, you'll only have to pick the domain or subdomain that you'd like to protect. Additionally, you may also select if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You shall not have to do anything else, due to the fact that our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically within the preferred location and will add the required code within it. All sites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed within the exact same section, so you could disable this service for any of them with a mouse click.