Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting
There is a way of avoiding the hotlinking of your images through an .htaccess file within the website’s root directory, but if you are not very tech-savvy, we additionally give you a very time and effort saving tool that will allow you to activate the protection with a few clicks and without inputting any code. The tool could be accessed via the Hepsia CP, offered with all our web hosting services and the only 2 things that you'll need to select are a domain/subdomain from a drop-down menu and if the protection needs to be enabled for the main site folder or for some subfolder. Our system shall do the rest, so you will not have to do anything else by hand on your end. If you choose to deactivate the hotlink protection option at some point, you'll only have to return to the exact same section, to mark the checkbox at the side of it and to click on the Delete button.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you find out that somebody has hotlinked any of your images, you should use the protection tool we have developed and included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. When you activate this function, a server-generated image will appear on the third-party website rather than your real images. You'll only need to go to the Hotlink Protection section within the Control Panel and pick the domain or subdomain that your site uses from a practical drop-down menu - it's as easy as that. If required, you will also have the option to switch on the feature for a particular subfolder and not for the website altogether. Deactivating the protection is as simple - get back to the exact same section, check the box next to the given Internet site and then click on the Delete button.