Hot link (also called file leeching, remote linking, direct linking, bandwidth stealing) occurs when content from your site (images or other multimedia files) is embedded on another site and uses your bandwidth to serve the files. Plesk allows you to prevent hotlinks to your site. To do this
- Go to the Websites & Domains tab > Hotlink Protection
- Click Switch On to enable the protection from hotlinking.
- Specify the extensions of files that you want to protect from hotlinking (for example, jpg, bmp, and so on) in the Protected files extensions field. When listing several file extensions, separate them with white spaces.
- If you want to allow direct linking to your files from certain sites, type the website addresses into the Addresses of friendly websites field, and click Add.
- Click OK.
