Hotlinking is an expression which refers to the addition of images on a particular site through direct links. If you have site A, for instance, and a person creates site B and wishes to include a couple of images from your website, they're able to either save the images and then include them on their site or they can simply put links on their Internet site to the images on yours. Subsequently, whenever a visitor opens Internet site B, site B will steal traffic from your own website A, since the images will load straight from your website hosting account. This approach is sometimes used for documents and other types of files also. If you would like to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own web hosting account’s resources, you are able to restrict their capability to use direct links to your files on their sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

You can easily protect your content if you create an .htaccess file inside the website’s root folder, but if you don't have previous experience, you need to use our hotlink protection tool. The latter is included with all cloud website hosting package deals which we offer and can be accessed using the in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. The protection may be activated in 2 simple steps - pick the domain or subdomain for the site in question, then select if our system should set up the .htaccess file inside the main folder or within a subfolder and you shall be ready. You don't require any coding skills or any experience with such matters, because there shall be nothing else to do. If you want to disable the protection at some point, you could see all of the sites that are protected within the exact same section of the CP with a Delete button alongside each of them.