Hotlinking Protection

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Hotlinking, which is oftentimes termed bandwidth theft also, refers to linking to images that are on another website. Simply, if you have a site with some images on it, someone else may also build a site and rather than using their own images, they can put links straight to your images. While this might not be such a big problem if you have a smaller personal Internet site, it will be something quite serious if the images are copyrighted, since someone can be trying to copy your Internet site and cheat people. If your website hosting plan has a restricted monthly bandwidth quota, you could run out of resources without getting real visitors, due to the fact that the traffic shall be consumed by the other site. This is why you need to consider preserving your content from being hotlinked - not just images, but also files, because in rare occasions other kinds of files are linked too.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you find out that somebody has hotlinked any of your images, you can use the protection tool that we have created and integrated into our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Whenever you activate this feature, a server-generated image shall appear on the third-party Internet site instead of your real images. You will only have to go to the Hotlink Protection section in the CP and select the domain or subdomain that your Internet site uses from a handy drop-down menu - it is as simple as that. If required, you'll also have the option to switch on the feature only for a specific subfolder and not for the website in general. Deactivating the protection is as easy - go back to the exact same section, check the box next to the given Internet site and then click on the Delete button.