Hotlinking, which is sometimes referred to as bandwidth theft also, refers to linking to images that are on another website. Essentially, if you have a site with some images on it, someone else could also develop a website and as opposed to using their own images, they could put links straight to your images. While this might not be such a major issue if you have a smaller personal website, it will be something rather serious if the images are copyrighted, because someone can be aiming to copy your website and trick people. If your hosting package deal has a limited monthly bandwidth quota, you can use up all your resources without getting legitimate site visitors, as the traffic shall be consumed by the other Internet site. This is why you should think about shielding your content from being hotlinked - not just images, but also documents, as in rare occasions other sorts of files are linked too.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

It shall not take more than a few clicks to switch on the hotlink protection function we offer even if this is the first website hosting account which you use, since all our cloud website hosting come with 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 advanced Hepsia Control Panel, so it provides the same easy-to-use point-and-click interface. When you log in to your account’s back office and go to the Hotlink Protection section, you will simply need to choose the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect from a drop-down list. If you wish to enable this feature only for a certain Internet site folder, you will have the option to do that. All websites with active hotlink protection shall appear in this section and you will be able to disable the service by selecting the checkbox alongside the given Internet site and clicking on the Delete button.