Hotlinking, which is sometimes termed bandwidth theft too, identifies linking to images that are on another Internet site. Essentially, if you have an Internet site with some images on it, another individual could also create a website and instead of using their own images, they may put links straight to your images. Even though this may not be such a serious problem if you have a smaller personal website, it will be something really serious if the images are copyrighted, due to the fact that somebody may be attempting to copy your Internet site and deceive people. If your hosting package has a restricted monthly bandwidth quota, you can run out of resources without getting actual visitors, because the traffic will be consumed by the other site. That is why you should think about preserving your content from being hotlinked - not simply images, but also files, as in rare occasions other kinds of files are linked as well.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

It won't take more than a couple of mouse clicks to enable the hotlink protection function we provide even if this is the very first hosting account which you use, because all of our Linux cloud website hosting packages feature a rather simple and easy-to-use tool that will enable you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is part of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel, so it provides the same exact easy-to-use point-and-click interface. After you log in to your account’s back office and visit the Hotlink Protection section, you will only have to pick the domain or subdomain that you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you wish to switch on this service only for a specific Internet site folder, you've got the option to do that. All sites with enabled hotlink protection will appear in this section and you can turn off the service by selecting the checkbox next to the given website and pressing the Delete button.