More and more web hosting is now offering hotlink protection feature. A new feature provided by php web hosting and linux server. When you get ipage web hosting, its with hotlink protection feature inside. By default, hotlink protection is not yet enabled. You will need to login ipage control panel and go to .htaccess editor, and enable the hotlink protection for your web directory. Choose the directory you want to hotlink protect, grant access to URL, and choose file extension to protect. A complete setting and configuration you can use, and default setting had been provided to you.
We recommend using hotlink protection on your data files, zip files, gif jpg png image files, and even on video files. This will prevent other website from requesting your files and stealing your bandwidth.
Ipage hosting allows you to fully configure the .htaccess and enable hotlink protection. Ipage coupon price is now only $2.99 per month, and it is one of the best web hosting plan! Ipage hosting is also a green web hosting!
“Prevent unauthorized URLs from loading files within specified directories at your site, which uses your bandwidth (also called bandwidth theft and leeching). You can choose to redirect these requests and specify URLs that are allowed to access files at your site.“
Few years back when .htaccess override is not made available in most shared web hosting, when choosing for web hosting we need to make sure this is a provided feature. Now, almost all linux hosting plan allows you to have .htaccess override, and what we need to have is the .htaccess editor tool. It is unnecessary to edit the .htaccess file manually, you can now use the .htaccess editor tool to get the setting changed.
Ipage hosting support .htaccess file and they are providing .htaccess editor tool as well. You can use the .htaccess editor to carry out few server setting configuration. And following are the few thing you can achieve:
- hotlink protection.
- password protection.
- Block IP addresses.
- change MIME type.
- custom error page.
- change default page.
- URL redirect.
- open directory browing.
“Settings are inherited: commands in a .htaccess file affect both the directory it is in and any subdirectories of that directory. A file in your main directory will affect your whole site. To override inherited settings in a subdirectory, add a .htaccess file to the subdirectory.“
.htaccess is a feature provided by linux hosting, not available in windows hosting. View ipage hosting and their hosting plan with .htaccess editor. Ipage discount price is just $2.99 per month, a very good web hosting deal!
