Hotlinking, which is often referred to as bandwidth theft too, identifies linking to images that are on another website. In simple terms, if you have an Internet site with some images on it, another individual may also create a site and as opposed to using their own images, they may put links directly to your images. Even though this may not be such a serious problem if you have a smaller personal website, it will be something rather serious if the images are copyrighted, as someone might be attempting to copy your site and cheat people. If your website hosting package deal has a limited monthly bandwidth quota, you might use up all your resources without getting real site visitors, because the traffic shall be consumed by the other website. This is why you need to consider protecting your content from being hotlinked - not simply images, but also files, as in rare occasions other sorts of files are linked also.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Web Hosting
Because our Linux shared web hosting packages feature a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to shield your content from displaying on third-party sites with literally no more than a couple of mouse clicks, even if you don't have very much experience with such matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and when you open it, you'll just have to choose the domain or subdomain you want to protect. Furthermore, you may also choose if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You won't need to do anything else, because our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically within the preferred location and will include the needed code inside it. All sites with enabled hotlink protection shall be listed in the same section, so you could disable this service for each of them with just a mouse click.