Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you build a website, somebody else may want to use the images which you have and instead of downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their site, they could simply put links directly to your Internet site. This way, every time a visitor opens their Internet site, the images shall be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright issues that may develop or that someone can be trying to deceive people into believing that they are actually on your site. In rare instances, documents and other sorts of files can also be linked in the same exact way. To stop this from happening and to avoid this type of situations, you could enable hotlink protection for your website.

Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting

You can easily shield your content if you set up an .htaccess file in the website’s root folder, but if you do not have previous experience, you can use our hotlink protection tool. The latter is supplied with all web hosting plans which we offer and could be accessed from the in-house built Hepsia CP. The protection can be turned on in two easy steps - choose the domain or subdomain for the Internet site in question, then choose if our system should create the .htaccess file within the main folder or inside a subfolder and you shall be ready. You don't require any coding expertise or any experience with this sort of matters, because there shall be nothing else to do. If you'd like to disable the protection eventually, you will be able to see all the Internet sites which are protected within the same exact section of the Control Panel with a Delete button alongside each one of them.