Hotlink Forbidden

What is Hot Linking?

In the webmaster community, "hot linking" is a curse phrase. Bandwidth is the amount of data (information) being sent from the host server to the visitors computer. Each text letter, image, web page, and so forth is all really a bunch of data. A visitor comes to your web page, and all the data for displaying in their browser is transferred into their computer. Bandwidth theft (or hotlinking) is when someone else's site is linking directly to an image (or something) on your site instead of downloading the image and uploading it to their own server.

This may not sound like a problem, but in some cases it can be a big one. Imagine you made an image and 100 other sites coded THIER pages to find that image on YOUR hosted area. If it was just your page alone, the bandwidth data transfer would be very small. Now that a hundred other sites are using the image on your server, that data transfer amount has just gone through the roof. Although this may not impact your site itself, your host server will be bogged down with all this extra transferring. Thus they may make you pay more dollars for hosting and/or cut you off entirely!

Sum it up:

A: A Site would have to pay additional money to support their sites in addition to sites who "HOT LINK". Some of the increased fees would be:

B. These sites who HOT LINK do not pay a thing, forcing the site who hosts the original files to pay additional money. In otherwords, they leave the bill to someone else.

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