Hotlinking is a term which represents the addition of images on a particular site through the use of direct links. When you have website A, for example, and a person creates website B and wishes to include a number of images from your website, they are able to either save the images and then include them on their website or they may simply place links on their site to the images on yours. As a result, whenever a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own website A, since the images will load directly from your website hosting account. This process is typically used for documents and other kinds of files also. If you want to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own website hosting account’s resources, you'll be able to restrict their ability to use direct links to your files on their websites.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Web Hosting

Due to the fact that our shared web hosting plans come with a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you will be able to shield your content from displaying on third-party sites with literally only a couple of clicks, even if you do not have much experience with this kind of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting CP and once you open it, you'll just have to pick the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect. In addition, you can also pick if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You'll not need to do anything else, because our system will create an .htaccess file automatically inside the preferred location and shall add the necessary code inside it. All Internet websites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed inside exactly the same section, so you could disable this service for any of them with a mouse click.