Hotlinking is a term that identifies the addition of images on a particular site through the use of direct links. If you have site A, for example, and someone creates website B and wishes to include a number of images from your Internet site, they could either save the images and then add them on their website or they may simply place links on their website to the images on yours. Consequently, each time a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, as the images will load directly from your web hosting account. This technique is typically used for documents and other kinds of files too. If you would like to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own hosting account’s resources, you are able to restrict their capability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.
Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting
You can easily protect your content if you create an .htaccess file in the website’s root folder, but in case you don't have previous experience, you should use our hotlink protection tool. The latter is provided with all web hosting packages which we offer and could be accessed via the in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. The protection may be activated in 2 easy steps - choose the domain or subdomain for the site in question, then choose if our system should set up the .htaccess file within the primary folder or inside a subfolder and you shall be ready. You don't require any programming capabilities or any experience with this type of matters, because there will be nothing else to do. If you want to turn off the protection at some point, you will be able to see all the Internet sites which are protected within the same exact section of the Control Panel with a Delete button alongside each one of them.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
We offer a simple solution to protect your whole content and even if you are not really tech-savvy, you can benefit from it with several clicks. The standard approach to enable server-side hotlink protection is to set up an .htaccess file and to add a number of directives within it. With the tool which you will find inside the Hepsia CP, provided with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll simply have to pick the Internet site that you intend to protect and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, including all of the required content within it. You may also use this feature for only one folder as opposed to the whole Internet site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be created. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be enabled, you may deactivate it with a single click from the exact same section of your CP.