Anyone who operates their own website knows that you need to provide forms in your site for visitors to contact you. The big challenge is providing easy form access to your visitors, without letting SPAM flood your email inbox or database. The techniques described in this article tell you how to reduce the amount of SPAM.
This password protection is rather simple. I wouldn't advise you to use this for any major admin panels. Just keep it cool as there may be a exploit to bypass this.
Hotlinking is when another website links directly to one or more of your images or multimedia files and includes it on their web page. Not only is this theft of your intellectual property, but further more, you are paying for the bandwidth used by that site. Which can result in a problem with your budget.
The most common way to prevent others from hotlinking your content is Apache's mod_rewrite. While this a solution that free available to use, there are a couple drawbacks. One being, that Apache has to be configured to use mod_rewrite (--enable-rewrite). Another one being, that for a lot of people writing regular expressions is not the most easiest thing to do.
Of course there are commercial solutions to the problem. Probably the most common one is cPanel. An administration interface for webserver, which let's you create all the necessary items for your hotlink protection with a matter of clicks, in a matter of seconds.
Problems with common Hotlink Protection
Here?s a way to protect the products you sell with Clickbank, using their built-in protection and by implementing a 30-day expiration, all without having to worry about managing databases or customer lists.
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