Hotlinking is a term that identifies the addition of images on a particular site using direct links. In case you have website A, for example, and somebody creates site B and wants to add a couple of images from your site, they can either save the images and then add them on their website or they may simply place links on their website to the images on yours. Subsequently, every time a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, since the images shall load directly from your web hosting account. This method is typically used for documents and other kinds of files also. If you'd like to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own web hosting account’s resources, you can limit their capability to use direct links to your files on their websites.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

It will not take more than several clicks to enable the hotlink protection feature which we offer you even if this is the very first web hosting account which you use, due to the fact that all our shared hosting feature a quite simple and easy to work with tool that will enable you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our innovative Hepsia Control Panel, so it has the same easy-to-use point-and-click interface. As soon as you log in to your account’s back office and navigate to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll only need to choose the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect from a drop-down list. If you want to switch on this service only for a specific website folder, you've got the option to do that. All sites with active hotlink protection shall appear within this section and you can easily disable the service by selecting the checkbox alongside the given site and clicking on the Delete button.