Image hostlink is bad for your website. If you are hosting the image files, alot of images files, and these files get access from other external websites that link to your hosting server to pull image from your server. When external website using image hotlinking, the webpage will grab the image files from your server, and using your server bandwidth. If you are having alot of image files and big files, image hotlinking can jammed up the server bandwidth transfer easily. This is why you should protect your website and web server from being hotlinked.
By utilizing the hotlinking feature in cpanel, you can now turn the hotlinking feature off and disallow external website to hotlink to your web server and consume your bandwidth directly. When look for shared hosting or dedicated server, make sure you have the hotlinking feature provided and you can turn it ON or OFF as you prefer.
Hostgator cpanel hosting are with hotlinking protection, signup with their shared hosting account, and you can activate the hostgator coupon code for 20% additional discount off.
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