Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet expression for linking to another website’s images. In other words, if you create an Internet site, another person may want to use the images which you have and rather than downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their Internet site, they may simply put links straight to your site. That way, each time a visitor opens their Internet site, the images shall be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright issues that could present themselves or that someone can be trying to trick people into thinking that they're in fact on your Internet site. In rare occasions, documents and other sorts of files can also be linked in the very same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid such situations, you may activate hotlink protection for your Internet site.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

It won't take more than a few mouse clicks to switch on the hotlink security function that we offer you even if this is the very first hosting account which you use, since all of our shared plans include a very simple and easy-to-use tool that will permit you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is an element of our revolutionary Hepsia CP, so it features the exact same intuitive point & click interface. When you log in to your account’s back office and go to the Hotlink Protection section, you will simply need to choose the domain or subdomain that you would like to secure from a drop-down list. If you wish to enable this service only for a certain site folder, you've got the option to do that. All sites with active hotlink protection will appear inside this section and you will be able to disable the service by selecting the checkbox alongside the given website and pressing the Delete button.