Hotlinking is a term which refers to the inclusion of images on a particular website using direct links. If you have site A, for instance, and someone creates site B and wishes to add a few images from your website, they can either save the images and then add them on their website or they may simply put links on their Internet site to the images on yours. Subsequently, whenever a visitor opens Internet site B, site B will steal traffic from your own website A, since the images shall load directly from your web hosting account. This method is sometimes used for documents and other kinds of files as well. If you want to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own website hosting account’s resources, you'll be able to restrict their capability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

It shall not require more than several clicks to switch on the hotlink protection feature we offer you even if this is the very first web hosting account you use, due to the fact that all of our cloud web hosting come with a simple and easy to work with tool that will allow you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is an element of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel, so it features the exact same intuitive point & click interface. After you log in to your account’s back office and visit the Hotlink Protection section, you will only need to select the domain or subdomain that you would like to secure from a drop-down list. If you would like to activate this service only for a certain website folder, you've got the option to do that. All Internet sites with enabled hotlink protection shall appear within this section and you could disable the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given website and pressing the Delete button.