Hotlinking, which is sometimes referred to as bandwidth theft too, refers to linking to images which are on another website. Simply, if you have an Internet site with some images on it, another individual could also build a site and as opposed to using their own images, they could put links straight to your images. Even though this might not be such a serious issue if you have a smaller personal website, it shall be something rather serious if the images are copyrighted, due to the fact that somebody may be trying to copy your website and trick people. If your web hosting package deal has a limited monthly bandwidth quota, chances are you'll use up all your resources without getting real visitors, due to the fact that the traffic shall be consumed by the other website. This is the reason why you need to consider preserving your content from being hotlinked - not only images, but also documents, because in rare occasions other types of files are linked as well.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

Since our Linux cloud hosting provide a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you will be able to defend your content from appearing on third-party Internet sites with literally just two clicks, even if you don't have much experience with this sort of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and when you open it, you will just need to pick the domain or subdomain that you want to protect. In addition, you can also select if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You'll not need to do anything else, since our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically inside the needed location and shall include the necessary code within it. All websites with active hotlink protection shall be listed in the exact same section, so you may disable this service for each of them with just a click.