Hotlinking, which is often termed bandwidth theft also, describes linking to images which are on another website. Basically, if you have an Internet site with some images on it, somebody else can also create a site and as opposed to using their own images, they may put links straight to your images. Although this may not be such a big problem if you have one small personal website, it can be something rather serious if the images are copyrighted, due to the fact that somebody might be attempting to copy your Internet site and trick people. If your hosting plan has a restricted monthly bandwidth quota, you can use up all your resources without getting real visitors, because the traffic shall be consumed by the other Internet site. This is the reason why you should consider preserving your content from being hotlinked - not just images, but also documents, since in rare occasions other sorts of files are linked as well.
Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting
As our Linux cloud hosting come with a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to defend your content from displaying on third-party sites with literally only 2 mouse clicks, even if you do not have very much experience with this sort of matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP and as soon as you open it, you'll just have to pick the domain or subdomain which you want to protect. Optionally, you can also pick if the hotlink protection will be enabled for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You won't have to do anything else, because our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically within the needed location and shall add the required code inside it. All Internet websites with enabled hotlink protection shall be listed within the same section, so you could disable this service for each of them with a click.