Hotlinking is an expression which describes the addition of images on a particular Internet site using direct links. When you have website A, for example, and someone creates site B and wants to add a few images from your website, they are able to either save the images and then include them on their Internet site or they could simply place links on their site to the images on yours. As a result, each time a visitor opens website B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, since the images will load directly from your website hosting account. This process is usually used for documents and other types 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 could limit their capability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

As our cloud plans feature a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you will be able to defend your content from appearing on third-party websites with literally only a couple of clicks, even if you do not have very much experience with this sort of matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP and when you open it, you will just have to pick the domain or subdomain which you want to protect. In addition, you can also pick if the hotlink protection will be enabled for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You won't have to do anything else, as our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically inside the needed location and will include the required code inside it. All sites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed in the same section, so that you can disable this service for each of them with a mouse click.