Hotlink Protection

"Hotlinking" occurs when people link to your files from another web site and thereby "steal" your bandwidth. One regular example of hotlinking happens when users on Internet discussion forums link to your graphic's files in their forum posts. In the Web Hosting Control Panel, hotlink protection can be either enabled or disabled in the web hosting control panel. If enabled, select the URL addresses that you would like for visitors to be able to access. You can select the URLs to allow access to your files. You may or may not want to allow graphic file extensions such as jpg, jpeg, gif, and png to be allowed for viewing on your account. You can also choose to allow direct request, that is entering the url to an image in your browser.