Hotlinking, which is often labeled bandwidth theft as well, identifies linking to images which are on another site. Essentially, if you have a website with some images on it, another individual can also build a website and rather than using their own images, they may put links straight to your images. Although this may not be such a serious issue if you have a smaller personal site, it'll be something really serious if the images are copyrighted, as someone could be attempting to copy your website and trick people. If your web hosting package has a restricted monthly bandwidth quota, you could exhaust your resources without getting real website visitors, due to the fact that the traffic shall be consumed by the other website. That is why you need to consider preserving your content from being hotlinked - not only images, but also documents, since in rare occasions other kinds of files are linked too.
Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting
Due to the fact that our Linux web hosting include a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you will be able to defend your content from showing on third-party Internet sites with literally only two clicks, even if you don't have much experience with this sort of matters. The tool is available in the Hepsia hosting CP and when you open it, you'll only have to pick the domain or subdomain which you want to protect. Furthermore, you could also select if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You'll not have to do anything else, since our system will create an .htaccess file automatically in the needed location and shall include the needed code within it. All sites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed inside the very same section, so you can disable this service for each of them with a mouse click.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
We provide an effective solution to protect your content and even if you are not very tech-savvy, you could take full advantage of it with just a few clicks. The conventional way to turn on server-side hotlink security is to generate an .htaccess file and to include a couple of directives in it. With the tool that you will find inside the Hepsia CP, included with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will simply need to select the Internet site that you need to protect and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, including all the needed content within it. You could also use this function for only one folder rather than the whole website - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file should be set up. If you no longer need the hotlink security to be switched on, you could disable it with one mouse click through the same exact section of your Control Panel.