Hotlinking, which is often termed bandwidth theft too, refers to linking to images which are on another Internet site. Essentially, if you have an Internet site with some images on it, some other person may also develop a website and as opposed to using their own images, they may put links straight to your images. Although this may not be such a big problem if you have one small personal Internet site, it shall be something rather serious if the images are copyrighted, because someone might be aiming to copy your website and trick people. If your website hosting package deal has a restricted monthly bandwidth quota, you will exhaust your resources without getting legitimate website visitors, simply because the traffic will be consumed by the other website. That is why you should consider shielding your content from being hotlinked - not just images, but also files, because in rare occasions other sorts of files are linked as well.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Website Hosting

Due to the fact that our shared website hosting come with a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to defend your content from displaying on third-party Internet sites with literally just a couple of clicks, even if you do not have much experience with this kind of matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and as soon as you open it, you'll only have to select the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect. Optionally, you can also choose if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You shall not have to do anything else, since our system will create an .htaccess file automatically inside the preferred location and will add the needed code inside it. All sites with enabled hotlink protection shall be listed in the exact same section, so you may disable this service for any of them with just a click.