Hotlinking, which is occasionally termed bandwidth theft as well, refers to linking to images that are on another Internet site. Simply, if you have an Internet site with some images on it, somebody else could also create a site and instead of using their own images, they may put links directly to your images. Although this might not be such a major issue if you have a smaller personal website, it'll be something quite serious if the images are copyrighted, since somebody could be attempting to copy your site 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 site visitors, due to the fact that the traffic shall be consumed by the other website. This is the reason why you need to consider shielding your content from being hotlinked - not just images, but also documents, because in rare occasions other sorts of files are linked also.
Hotlinking Protection in Website Hosting
Because our Linux website hosting feature a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you will be able to secure your content from showing on third-party sites with literally just 2 mouse clicks, even if you don't have a lot of experience with this type of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and once you open it, you'll just need to pick the domain or subdomain you want to protect. In addition, you can also pick if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You will not have to do anything else, since our system will create an .htaccess file automatically in the needed location and shall include the necessary code in it. All websites with active hotlink protection shall be listed within the exact same section, so you can disable this service for any of them with just a mouse click.