Hotlinking Protection
What's hotlink protection and exactly how does it work? When do you really need it?
Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Basically, if you develop a website, some other person may want to use the images which you have and instead of downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their site, they could simply put links to your site. This way, every time a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, thus stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, not to mention the copyright issues which could develop or that somebody may be trying to deceive people into thinking that they are in fact on your site. In rare situations, documents and other sorts of files could also be linked in the exact same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you may permit hotlink protection for your website.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
We provide an effective solution to shield your content and even if you aren't really tech-savvy, you are able to benefit from it with a couple of clicks. The common way to turn on server-side hotlink security is to set up an .htaccess file and to add a few directives inside it. With the tool that you'll find inside the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will simply need to select the site which you intend to secure and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, adding all of the essential content inside it. You can also use this option for just one folder rather than the whole Internet site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be set up. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be switched on, you could disable it with a single click through the same section of your CP.
