Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you create a site, another person may want to use the images you have and rather than downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their own Internet site, they can simply put links straight to your website. That way, when a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright problems that could develop or that someone may be trying to trick people into believing that they are actually on your Internet site. In rare occasions, documents and other sorts of files may also be linked in the exact same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this type of situations, you can enable hotlink protection for your website.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Web Hosting
You can easily protect your content if you generate an .htaccess file inside the website’s root folder, but in case you don't have previous experience, you can use our hotlink protection tool. The latter is included with all shared web hosting plans that we offer and could be accessed via the in-house built Hepsia CP. The protection could be activated in 2 easy steps - pick the domain or subdomain for the Internet site in question, then choose if our system should create the .htaccess file in the main folder or within a subfolder and you will be ready. You don't need any programming skills or any experience with such matters, due to the fact that there will be nothing else to do. If you'd like to turn off the protection eventually, you could see all the Internet sites that are protected in the same section of the CP with a Delete button beside each one of them.