Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet expression for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you create an Internet site, somebody else may want to use the images you have and rather than downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their own Internet site, they could simply put links directly to your website. This way, when a visitor opens their Internet site, the images shall be loaded from your account, hence stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright problems that may appear or that someone could be trying to deceive people into believing that they are in fact on your site. In rare instances, documents and other sorts of files can also be linked in the exact same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid such situations, you may enable hotlink protection for your Internet site.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

It won't require more than several clicks to switch on the hotlink security feature we offer you even if this is the 1st website hosting account that you use, since all of our cloud hosting include a simple and easy-to-use tool that will allow you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our innovative Hepsia Control Panel, so it features the exact same intuitive point-and-click interface. When you log in to your account’s back office and go to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll simply have to select the domain or subdomain that you'd like to secure from a drop-down list. If you would like to switch on this service only for a specific website folder, you will have the option to do that. All websites with enabled hotlink protection shall appear in this section and you could disable the service by selecting the checkbox next to the given Internet site and pressing the Delete button.