Hotlinking Protection
What's the aim of hotlink protection? How does it function and in which cases is it helpful to use it?
Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you develop a website, another person may want to use the images that you have and instead of downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their own site, they can simply put links straight to your Internet site. This way, every time a visitor opens their Internet site, the images shall be loaded from your account, thus stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright issues which can arise or that somebody could be trying to trick people into thinking that they're actually on your Internet site. In rare occasions, documents and other sorts of files can also be linked in the exact same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this type of situations, you could permit hotlink protection for your Internet site.
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Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting
It won't take more than a few clicks to enable the hotlink security feature which we offer you even if this is the first web hosting account which you use, since all of our
cloud plans feature a simple and easy to work with tool that will enable you to stop direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our revolutionary Hepsia CP, so it offers the exact same intuitive point & click interface. Once you log in to your account’s back office and go to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll simply need to pick the domain or subdomain that you want to secure from a drop-down list. If you would like to activate this feature only for a certain Internet site folder, you've got the option to do that. All sites with active hotlink protection shall appear in this section and you could disable the service by selecting the checkbox next to the given site and clicking on the Delete button.
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Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a
semi-dedicated server account with our company and you notice that someone has hotlinked any of your images, you can use the security tool we've developed and incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Whenever you activate this option, a server-generated image shall appear on the third-party site in place of your actual images. You'll only need to go to the Hotlink Protection section inside the CP and select the domain or subdomain which your website uses from a convenient drop-down menu - it's as basic as that. If required, you shall also have the option to switch on the feature only for a particular subfolder and not for the website in its entirety. Deactivating the protection is as easy - return to exactly the same section, check the box beside the particular website and then click on the Delete button.