Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you create an Internet site, another person may want to use the images which you have and instead of downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their Internet site, they can simply put links to your website. This way, each time a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright problems which can arise or that somebody can be trying to trick people into thinking that they're actually on your Internet site. In rare occasions, documents and other kinds of files may also be linked in the very same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid such situations, you can enable hotlink protection for your Internet site.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

It will not take more than a number of clicks to switch on the hotlink protection feature we provide even if this is the 1st hosting account you use, as all of our cloud website hosting include a simple and easy to work with tool that will permit you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is part of our innovative Hepsia Control Panel, so it features the same intuitive point & click interface. After you log in to your account’s back office and go to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll simply have to select the domain or subdomain that you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you would like to activate this feature only for a certain website folder, you will have the option to do that. All websites with active hotlink protection shall appear within this section and you can easily deactivate the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given site and clicking on the Delete button.