Hotlinking is a term that refers to the inclusion of images on a particular website through the use of direct links. If you have site A, for example, and an individual creates site B and wishes to include a couple of images from your website, they are able to either save the images and then add them on their Internet site or they could simply put links on their site to the images on yours. As a result, whenever a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own website A, as the images will load straight from your web hosting account. This process is oftentimes used for documents and other types of files as well. If you want to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own hosting account’s resources, you can limit their ability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you open a semi-dedicated server account and you learn that someone is linking to your files without your consent, you can easily cut them off by enabling the hotlink protection feature we provide. While the common way to do this is to create an .htaccess file, we have a special tool which is able to execute this automatically and you will only need to choose the website in question and to determine whether our system should generate the required file in the primary folder or within a subfolder. The tool is a component of our custom made Hepsia CP and has exactly the same user-friendly interface, so you'll be able to use it with no issues even if you have never used any hosting service before. You may switch off the hotlink security function for any website/folder with a mouse click from the exact same section.