Hotlinking is a term which represents the addition of images on a particular Internet site through direct links. If you have site A, for instance, and someone creates site B and wants to add a number of images from your site, they're able to either save the images and then add them on their site or they could simply place links on their site to the images on yours. As a result, each time a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own site A, because the images shall load from your website hosting account. This process is sometimes used for documents and other types of files as well. If you wish to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own hosting account’s resources, you could limit their capability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting
Because our Linux shared hosting packages provide a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to shield your content from showing on third-party Internet sites with literally no more than a couple of mouse clicks, even if you don't have a lot of experience with this sort of matters. The tool is available in the Hepsia hosting CP and when you open it, you will only have to select the domain or subdomain you want to protect. Additionally, you can also select if the hotlink protection will be enabled 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 in the desired location and will include the needed code in it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection shall be listed within the very same section, so you could disable this service for each of them with a mouse click.