Hotlinking Protection in Hosting
There is a way of avoiding the hotlinking of your images by using an .htaccess file inside the website’s root directory, but if you are not very tech-savvy, we furthermore provide a very easy-to-work-with tool that shall permit you to activate the protection with a few clicks and without typing any code. The tool could be accessed via the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all our Linux hosting services and the only 2 things which you'll have to select are a domain/subdomain from a drop-down menu and if the protection should be enabled for the main Internet site folder or for some subfolder. Our system shall do the rest, so you shall not need to do anything else by hand on your end. If you choose to turn off the hotlink protection option sometime, you will simply have to return to the same section, to mark the checkbox beside it and to press the Delete button.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you find out that someone has hotlinked any of your images, you may use the security tool we've developed and integrated into our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. When you switch on this function, a server-generated image shall appear on the third-party Internet site instead of your real images. You'll only have to go to the Hotlink Protection section in the CP and pick the domain or subdomain that your site uses from a practical drop-down menu - it's as elementary as that. If needed, you shall also have the option to switch on the feature just for a particular subfolder and not for the website altogether. Deactivating the function is just as easy - return to exactly the same section, check the box next to the particular site and then click on the Delete button.