Hotlinking, which is oftentimes labeled bandwidth theft as well, refers to linking to images that are on another site. In simple terms, if you have an Internet site with some images on it, another individual could also build a site and instead of using their own images, they may put links directly to your images. Although this may not be such a serious problem if you have one small personal site, it can be something rather serious if the images are copyrighted, due to the fact that somebody might be aiming to copy your website and cheat people. If your hosting package deal has a restricted monthly bandwidth quota, chances are you'll use up all your resources without getting real website visitors, as the traffic shall be consumed by the other website. This is why you should think about protecting your content from being hotlinked - not simply images, but also documents, because in rare occasions other types of files are linked too.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can easily shield your content if you generate an .htaccess file in the website’s root folder, but in case you do not have previous experience, you need to use our hotlink protection tool. The latter is included with all cloud hosting package deals that we offer and can be accessed through the in-house built Hepsia CP. The protection may be enabled in two easy steps - select the domain or subdomain for the Internet site in question, then select if our system should set up the .htaccess file in the main folder or in a subfolder and you'll be ready. You don't require any computer programming skills or any experience with this sort of matters, as there will be nothing else to do. If you would like to turn off the protection eventually, you could see all of the Internet sites that are protected within the very same section of the CP with a Delete button alongside each of them.