Hotlinking is a commonly accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you create an Internet site, some other person may want to use the images which you have and instead of downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their own Internet site, they can simply put links straight to your website. This way, every time a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright issues which could arise or that someone may be trying to trick people into thinking that they are in fact on your website. In rare situations, documents and other kinds of files could also be linked in the same exact way. To stop this from happening and to avoid such situations, you could permit hotlink protection for your Internet site.
Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting
You can easily shield your content if you generate an .htaccess file within the website’s root folder, but if you do not have previous experience, you need to use our hotlink protection tool. The latter is provided with all web hosting package deals that we offer and could be accessed using the in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. The protection can be activated in 2 basic steps - pick the domain or subdomain for the website in question, then select if our system should set up the .htaccess file inside the main folder or within a subfolder and you will be all set. You don't require any programming skills or any experience with this kind of matters, as there will be nothing else to do. If you wish to remove the protection eventually, you will be able to see all of the Internet sites which are protected within the exact same section of the Control Panel with a Delete button beside each one of them.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you create a semi-dedicated server account and you find out that another person is linking to your files without your authorization, you could easily cut them off by switching on the hotlink security feature which we offer you. While the typical way to do this is to set up an .htaccess file, we have a special tool that is able to do this automatically and you'll only need to pick the Internet site in question and to choose whether our system should set up the needed file within the primary folder or inside a subfolder. The tool is an element of our customized Hepsia Control Panel and provides the exact same user-friendly interface, so you'll be able to use it without any difficulties even when you have never used any web hosting service before. You are able to turn off the hotlink protection function for any website/folder with a click through the same section.