Hotlinking Protection
What precisely is hotlink protection and just how does it function? When do you need such?
Hotlinking, which is sometimes labeled bandwidth theft as well, describes linking to images that are on another website. Simply, if you have a website with some images on it, another individual could also build a site and instead of using their own images, they can put links directly to your images. Although this may not be such a major issue if you have a smaller personal website, it can be something really serious if the images are copyrighted, because someone can be attempting to copy your Internet site and trick people. If your hosting plan has a restricted monthly bandwidth quota, you will use up all your resources without getting legitimate site visitors, due to the fact that the traffic shall be consumed by the other website. This is the reason why you need to consider shielding your content from being hotlinked - not just images, but also files, as in rare occasions other types of files are linked as well.
Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting
Because our web hosting come with a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you will be able to protect your content from appearing on third-party sites with literally just a couple of mouse clicks, even if you don't have a lot of experience with this sort of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting CP and when you open it, you will only have to select the domain or subdomain you want to protect. In addition, you may also select if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You shall not need to do anything else, as our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically inside the desired location and shall add the needed code in it. All sites with active hotlink protection will be listed inside the same section, so you may disable this service for each of them with a click.