Hotlinking is a term that refers to the inclusion of images on a particular Internet site via direct links. In case you have website A, for example, and someone creates website B and wants to add a couple of images from your site, they are able to either save the images and then include them on their website or they may simply put links on their site to the images on yours. As a result, each time a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own website A, because the images shall load straight from your website hosting account. This technique is typically used for documents and other sorts of files too. If you want to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own web hosting account’s resources, you could limit their ability to use direct links to your files on their websites.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Website Hosting

It won't require more than several mouse clicks to activate the hotlink security function we offer you even if this is the 1st website hosting account that you use, since all of our Linux shared website hosting packages come with a quite simple and user-friendly tool that will allow you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is part of our innovative Hepsia CP, so it has the same easy-to-use point-and-click interface. After you log in to your account’s back office and visit the Hotlink Protection section, you'll simply need to choose the domain or subdomain you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you'd like to activate this service only for a particular site folder, you've got the option to do that. All websites with enabled hotlink protection will appear in this section and you will be able to disable the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given website and clicking on the Delete button.