Hotlinking is a term which refers to the addition of images on a given site through direct links. When you have site A, for instance, and a person creates website B and wants to include a number of images from your website, they're able to either save the images and then include them on their site or they may simply put links on their site to the images on yours. As a result, whenever a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own website A, as the images will load from your web hosting account. This technique is usually used for documents and other types of files as well. If you'd like to prevent 3rd 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 websites.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

It won't require more than a few mouse clicks to switch on the hotlink protection feature we provide even if this is the 1st hosting account you use, as all of our cloud hosting include a very simple and user-friendly tool that will permit you to stop direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our innovative Hepsia Control Panel, so it offers the same intuitive point & click interface. After 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'd like to secure from a drop-down list. If you want to switch on this feature only for a specific site folder, you've got the option to do that. All Internet sites with active hotlink protection shall appear within this section and you could disable the service by selecting the checkbox alongside the given Internet site and pressing the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you notice that somebody has hotlinked any of your images, you may use the security tool we have developed and included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. As soon as you enable this function, a server-generated image shall appear on the third-party website instead of your actual images. You'll only need to navigate to the Hotlink Protection section inside the Control Panel and choose the domain or subdomain that your site uses from a practical drop-down menu - it's as elementary as that. If necessary, you will also have the option to switch on the function only for a particular subfolder and not for the website in general. Deactivating the feature is just as easy - go back to the exact same section, check the box next to the given site and then click on the Delete button.