Hotlinking, which is oftentimes called bandwidth theft too, identifies linking to images that are on another website. In simple terms, if you have a site with some images on it, another individual may also create a website and rather than using their own images, they may put links straight to your images. While this might not be such a serious issue if you have a small personal site, it can be something very serious if the images are copyrighted, because someone may be attempting to copy your site and cheat people. If your hosting package has a limited monthly bandwidth quota, you can exhaust your resources without getting actual website visitors, due to the fact that the traffic shall be consumed by the other website. This is why you should consider preserving your content from being hotlinked - not just images, but also files, since in rare occasions other kinds of files are linked as well.

Hotlinking Protection in Hosting

Due to the fact that our hosting feature a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to defend your content from displaying on third-party websites with literally only a couple of clicks, even if you don't have a lot of experience with such matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting CP and as soon as you open it, you'll only have to choose the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect. Furthermore, you may also choose if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You'll not need to do anything else, because our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically within the preferred location and shall include the required code within it. All websites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed inside the exact same section, so you can easily disable this service for each of them with just a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our company offers an uncomplicated solution to protect your whole content and even if you are not very tech-savvy, you are able to benefit from it with a couple of clicks. The conventional technique to turn on server-side hotlink security is to create an .htaccess file and to add a couple of directives in it. With the tool that you will find within the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only need to choose the site which you want to secure and our system will create the .htaccess file for you, adding all the necessary content in it. You can even use this function for only one folder rather than the entire website - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be created. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be switched on, you can deactivate it with just one mouse click via the exact same section of your Control Panel.