Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you create a site, somebody else may want to use the images that you have and instead of downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their Internet site, they may simply put links to your site. This way, when a visitor opens their Internet site, the images will be loaded from your account, thus stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, not to mention the copyright problems which can develop or that someone may be trying to trick people into thinking that they're in fact on your website. In rare instances, documents and other kinds of files may also be linked in the very same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you can enable hotlink protection for your Internet site.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

Due to the fact that our cloud website hosting plans come with a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to protect your content from appearing on third-party Internet sites with literally no more than a couple of clicks, even if you don't have a lot of experience with this type of matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP and once you open it, you will only have to select the domain or subdomain which you want to protect. Additionally, you could also select if the hotlink protection will be enabled for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You will not have to do anything else, due to the fact that our system will create an .htaccess file automatically inside the desired location and shall include the necessary code inside it. All sites with enabled hotlink protection shall be listed in the same section, so you could disable this service for any of them with just a mouse click.