Hotlinking Protection
What's the aim of hotlink protection? How does it work and in which cases is it useful to use it?
Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. In other words, if you build a website, some other person may want to use the images you have and rather than downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their own Internet site, they may simply put links straight to your Internet site. This way, when a visitor opens their Internet site, the images will be loaded from your account, hence stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, in addition to the copyright issues which may arise or that somebody may be trying to trick people into believing that they are actually on your Internet site. In rare instances, 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 can permit hotlink protection for your site.
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Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting
It shall not require more than a few mouse clicks to switch on the hotlink security function which we provide even if this is the very first web hosting account which you use, since all of our
cloud hosting plans include a rather simple and easy-to-use tool that will allow you to stop direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our revolutionary Hepsia Control Panel, so it provides the same exact easy-to-use point-and-click interface. As soon as you log in to your account’s back office and go to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll only have to pick the domain or subdomain that you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you'd like to activate this service only for a specific site folder, you will have the option to do that. All Internet sites with active hotlink protection shall appear inside this section and you can disable the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given Internet site and clicking on the Delete button.
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Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you start a
semi-dedicated server account and you find out that another person is linking to your files without your approval, you can easily cut them off by switching on the hotlink protection function that we provide. While the regular method of doing this is to set up an .htaccess file, we have got a special tool that is able to do this automatically and you shall only need to choose the website in question and to decide whether our system should set up the required file inside the main folder or in a subfolder. The tool is part of our custom made Hepsia Control Panel and provides the exact same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it without complications even in case you have never used any website hosting service before. You can deactivate the hotlink protection feature for any website/folder with a click through exactly the same section.