Hotlinking is a term which identifies the inclusion of images on a given Internet site through the use of direct links. In case you have website A, for instance, and a person creates website B and wishes to include a few images from your Internet site, they could either save the images and then include them on their site or they can simply place links on their website to the images on yours. Thus, each time a visitor opens website B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, as the images will load straight from your web hosting account. This process is sometimes used for documents and other sorts of files as well. If you wish to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own website hosting account’s resources, you'll be able to limit their capability to use direct links to your files on their sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting

It won't require more than several mouse clicks to enable the hotlink protection function we provide even if this is the very first web hosting account which you use, since all of our web hosting plans feature a rather simple and easy to work with tool that will enable you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is part of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel, so it has the very same easy-to-use point-and-click interface. When you log in to your account’s back office and navigate to the Hotlink Protection section, you will only have to select the domain or subdomain that you would like to secure from a drop-down list. If you want to activate this function only for a specific website folder, you will have the option to do that. All Internet sites with enabled hotlink protection will appear inside this section and you can easily disable the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given website and pressing the Delete button.