Not everyone but nearly every prominent host prefers using cPanel, the major reason of this large acceptability of cPanel is its user friendliness which helps cutting the cost of support. Hotlink protection is one of its useful features which help to stop the misuse of media files.

Easy hotlinking of resource is the problem several websites are facing out there. Using hotlink a website establishes a direct link with the exposed resources on your website especially images and videos. It means, every time a visitor requests to open the hotlinked resources on some other website, it uses the bandwidth of your server. Hotlink protection stops this theft of bandwidth in few simple steps.