Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you develop an Internet site, some other person may want to use the images which you have and rather than downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their own Internet site, they could simply put links straight to your Internet site. This way, every time a visitor opens their Internet site, the images will be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright problems that may present themselves or that someone could be trying to trick people into thinking that they're in fact on your website. In rare occasions, documents and other types of files could also be linked in the very same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this kind of situations, you can permit 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 handy hotlink protection tool, you will be able to defend your content from displaying on third-party sites with literally no more than 2 clicks, even if you don't have much experience with such matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and as soon as you open it, you'll only need to pick the domain or subdomain that you'd like to protect. Additionally, you could also pick if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You will not have to do anything else, as our system will create an .htaccess file automatically in the preferred location and will add the necessary code in it. All websites with active hotlink protection shall be listed inside the exact same section, so you may disable this service for each of them with a click.