Hotlinking, which is oftentimes referred to as bandwidth theft also, identifies linking to images which are on another website. Simply, if you have an Internet site with some images on it, another individual could also develop a site and as opposed to using their own images, they may put links straight to your images. Although this might not be such a big problem if you have a small personal site, it will be something rather serious if the images are copyrighted, as somebody could be attempting to copy your website and trick people. If your hosting package deal has a limited monthly bandwidth quota, you might run out of resources without getting legitimate site visitors, due to the fact that the traffic shall be consumed by the other Internet site. This is why you should consider preserving your content from being hotlinked - not only images, but also files, as in rare occasions other types of files are linked as well.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

It won't take more than several clicks to activate the hotlink security feature which we offer you even if this is the very first website hosting account that you use, since all of our cloud hosting packages include a simple and easy-to-use tool that will enable you to stop direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our revolutionary Hepsia Control Panel, so it features the same easy-to-use point & click interface. As soon as you log in to your account’s back office and go to the Hotlink Protection section, you will simply have to choose the domain or subdomain that you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you wish to switch on this service only for a particular website folder, you've got the option to do that. All websites with active hotlink protection will appear in this section and you can turn off the service by selecting the checkbox alongside the given website and pressing the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you open a semi-dedicated server account and you find out that someone is linking to your files without your authorization, you will be able to easily cut them off by switching on the hotlink security function we provide. While the typical technique of doing this is to generate an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool which can perform this automatically and you will simply have to select the website in question and to choose whether our system should generate the needed file within the main folder or in a subfolder. The tool is a component of our custom Hepsia Control Panel and provides exactly the same user-friendly interface, so you'll be able to use it with no difficulties even in case you have never used any web hosting service before. You may turn off the hotlink protection function for any website/folder with a mouse click from the same section.