Tag Archives: hotlinking

July, 2010

• 29 July

  Why it never hurts to double-check your hotlink protection

  

  If you’ve owned a website for any period of time, chances are good you understand the importance of hotlink protection. Thousands of leechers hotlinking can take down the fastest of servers and rack up huge bandwidth bills. I’ve always made sure to set up hotlink protection of my sites, but …

April, 2010

• 7 April

  How to prevent hotlinking

  Also known as inline linking, hotlinking occurs when someone else uses a picture or video from your site somewhere else on the web, but doesn’t bother to host the content themselves. These “free riders” can hog precious bandwidth and in some cases, cause server instability. Fortunately, hotlinking is very easy …

June, 2009

• 1 June

  The Horror of Hotlinking

  Find yourself using too much bandwidth? While the pictures and video content many of us host on our sites use a fair bit of data transfer, a hidden threat may be hogging more resources than you realize. Also known as inline linking, hotlinking occurs when someone else uses a picture …