Hotlinking is a term that refers to the inclusion of images on a particular Internet site by using direct links. When you have website A, for example, and someone creates site B and wishes to include a couple of images from your site, they're able to either save the images and then include them on their Internet site or they may simply place links on their site to the images on yours. Thus, when a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own site A, as the images shall load directly from your hosting account. This process is typically used for documents and other sorts of files too. If you want to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own website hosting account’s resources, you'll be able to limit their capability to use direct links to your files on their websites.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

Due to the fact that our cloud web hosting provide a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to shield your content from appearing on third-party websites with literally just two clicks, even if you don't have a lot of experience with this type of matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP and when you open it, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect. Additionally, you can also choose if the hotlink protection will be enabled for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You shall not have to do anything else, as our system will create an .htaccess file automatically within the needed location and will add the necessary code in it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection will be listed inside the very same section, so you could disable this service for any of them with a click.