Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. In other words, if you develop a website, someone else may want to use the images that you have and instead of downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their own Internet site, they can simply put links to your website. In this way, whenever a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, thus stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright problems that could develop or that someone could be trying to trick people into thinking that they are actually on your Internet site. In rare situations, documents and other sorts of files can also be linked in the same exact way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this type of situations, you may activate hotlink protection for your website.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

Due to the fact that our Linux shared packages feature a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you will be able to defend your content from appearing on third-party sites with literally just two clicks, even if you don't have very much experience with this type of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and as soon as you open it, you'll only have to choose the domain or subdomain that you'd like to protect. Furthermore, you can also select if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You shall not need to do anything else, because our system will create an .htaccess file automatically inside the needed location and shall include the required code in it. All Internet websites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed inside exactly the same section, so you can disable this service for each of them with just a click.