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Atlas Ent · 09-18-2008, 12:56 PM

I'm new at this, so excuse me if this is a dumb question.

What exactly is "hotlinking?"

AE

A.J. Angel · 09-18-2008, 01:09 PM

Hotlinking is when an individual serves an image from your site on their site. Doing so result in bandwidth theft considering that the image is hosted on your server for which you have to pay and is being served by someone else on someone else's site and that someone doesn't pay for the bandwidth used.

MsNikkiNefarious · 09-18-2008, 04:22 PM

Essentially it's when you copy the link to an image from one site and put that link onto your site with an image code. It's best to save the image onto your hard drive and upload it onto your site and host the image yourself so that you don't eat up someone else's bandwidth. Dig?

Kelli58 · 09-18-2008, 08:09 PM

Let's say you own a website and you post a picture of Pamela Anderson on it. Everyone someone downloads that picture from your website it costs you bandwidth. Each website has a set amount of bandwidth they can use in their monthly hosting package. The more people who view that photo on your website, the more it costs you in bandwidth. But that's ok because the more people that visit your website (in theory) the more money you are making.

But now imagine some guy who runs his own website likes your picture and want to display it on their website and instead of just out right stealing it (file, save as and then uploading it to their own server), they find it's best to just display it by pulling it from YOUR server and as a result it will cost YOU bandwidth. Now you get all the expense of the traffic without the benefit of the exposure and that means no revenue from that traffic.

I started in this business in 1996. From 1996 to about 2001 the cost of bandwidth was insane. More so than I even care to think about right now. So hotlinking even one photo could have been VERY costly for a website owner.

I can remember before the days of CPANEL and hotlink protection programs doing daily checks to see if anyone was doing it because if you let it go to long unchecked and it hits you, it could cost you thousands.

Atlas Ent · 09-19-2008, 12:59 AM

Thanks for the answers, peeps.

megatgpdotnet · 10-11-2008, 05:57 AM

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hotlink away

mona · 10-13-2008, 01:08 PM

http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml Generate a code to disable hotlinking and/or check if people are hotlinking your images...

tom3k · 10-21-2008, 05:56 AM

yea if anyone needs some hotlink prevention stuff done lemme know.

iv set this up numerous times.

idealy via lighttpd, but apache(2) is doable too... running php that is.

ciao,

tom3k.

hominid4 · 11-18-2008, 12:01 PM

For some of my sites I welcome hotlinking. I monitor my stats daily and if I see on of my images being hotlinked I'll switch it out for an advertisement to one of my sites.

09-18-2008, 12:56 PM	#1
Atlas Ent Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 5	Hotlinking I'm new at this, so excuse me if this is a dumb question. What exactly is "hotlinking?" AE

09-18-2008, 04:22 PM	#3
MsNikkiNefarious Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 54	Essentially it's when you copy the link to an image from one site and put that link onto your site with an image code. It's best to save the image onto your hard drive and upload it onto your site and host the image yourself so that you don't eat up someone else's bandwidth. Dig? __________________

09-18-2008, 08:09 PM	#4
Kelli58 Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 2,093	Let's say you own a website and you post a picture of Pamela Anderson on it. Everyone someone downloads that picture from your website it costs you bandwidth. Each website has a set amount of bandwidth they can use in their monthly hosting package. The more people who view that photo on your website, the more it costs you in bandwidth. But that's ok because the more people that visit your website (in theory) the more money you are making. But now imagine some guy who runs his own website likes your picture and want to display it on their website and instead of just out right stealing it (file, save as and then uploading it to their own server), they find it's best to just display it by pulling it from YOUR server and as a result it will cost YOU bandwidth. Now you get all the expense of the traffic without the benefit of the exposure and that means no revenue from that traffic. I started in this business in 1996. From 1996 to about 2001 the cost of bandwidth was insane. More so than I even care to think about right now. So hotlinking even one photo could have been VERY costly for a website owner. I can remember before the days of CPANEL and hotlink protection programs doing daily checks to see if anyone was doing it because if you let it go to long unchecked and it hits you, it could cost you thousands. __________________ Kandy AI 🍭🍬 Take a bite out of censorship 🍭🍬 We believe in empowering adults to use AI as they see fit. 👉 Get AI to write your scene descriptions for you 👈

09-19-2008, 12:59 AM	#5
Atlas Ent Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 5	Thanks... Thanks for the answers, peeps.

10-11-2008, 05:57 AM	#6
megatgpdotnet Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: EU Posts: 1,296	www.omget.com hotlink away __________________ ICQ: 343 896 902 \| Traffic: Buy and Sell \| My top sponsors: Dating (1:26 fs) \| Webcams (20% lifetime) \| $25 / free signup \| Paysites (trials, crossells, alternative billing) \| Other Stuff .com domains $7.99 \| Dreamhost promo codes \| Cheap quality content \| Embed Tube Script Toplists: 1 \| 2

09-18-2008, 01:09 PM	#2
A.J. Angel Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 859	Hotlinking is when an individual serves an image from your site on their site. Doing so result in bandwidth theft considering that the image is hosted on your server for which you have to pay and is being served by someone else on someone else's site and that someone doesn't pay for the bandwidth used.

10-13-2008, 01:08 PM	#7
mona Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Mona = "female monkey" in Spanish Posts: 1,940	http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml Generate a code to disable hotlinking and/or check if people are hotlinking your images...

10-21-2008, 05:56 AM	#8
tom3k Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 105	yea if anyone needs some hotlink prevention stuff done lemme know. iv set this up numerous times. idealy via lighttpd, but apache(2) is doable too... running php that is. ciao, tom3k.

11-18-2008, 12:01 PM	#9
hominid4 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 71	For some of my sites I welcome hotlinking. I monitor my stats daily and if I see on of my images being hotlinked I'll switch it out for an advertisement to one of my sites. __________________ Adults Only eCards! : Free Adult eCards