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If you want to protect your images/video files by getting hotlink and want to prevent your precious bandwidth from being get stolen then you have to use Hotlink protection tool which comes with your control panel. Few webmaster try to steal bandwidth of other by hotlinking to images/media files hosted on other websites this will preserve their bandwidth when some start browsing your media files. Thus to save your previous bandwidth you should protect your media files and image files from getting hotlinked.
As a webmaster you should keep hotlinking feature enable for all files with extensions which are related to images and video files. If your images are linked on site which is having heavy traffic then your allotted bandwidth may endup with this external website hotlinking  to your media/images files. Even if your site is not having huge traffic still you can endup with your allotted bandwidth as other sites are eating your bandwidth as websites which are linking to your media/images files will eatup your bandwidth eachtime their visitor access their sites.
You can protect your image media files from getting hotlinked through your website hosting control panel or just updating your .htaccess file using following code.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?domain.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|wmv)$ http://wwwDOTdomainDOTcom/image.jpg [R,NC]

Note: replace your website with domain.com

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For many reasons you may need to move your hosting account with some good and reliable webhost. Your current host may not provide you all services you are looking for or their web servers are frequently getting down affecting your web presence.
Once you decide to move your hosting account and have got more reliable host then before proceeding with your new host just do your homework so that you will not face any downtime or data loss.

First of all decide when you would like to transfer all your data with new webhost accordingly signup for new hosting package get all login details. Before this take backup of all files/data which is running with your current host. You can keep this backup copy onto your local machine. You should create a directory system that is corresponding to the directory construction on your web server and download the files  into the several directories. this will help you while you upload all your data onto new server with your new host.

You will get all login details such as control panel details, FTP details etc. with your new host. usign these details just login into your control panel and upload all data/files using FTP. You should start by oldest created the directory structures on the web server, and then upload all the files to the respective directory.
Once you complete your uploading of data/files, databases you can use temporary URL to cross check everything works fine. Your host will provide you temporary URL for your accountso that you can check if every thing is perfect.  temporary URL may look like this http://serverIP/~your-accountname.
Once your site is working fine with temporary URL it’s time to contact your domain registrar to change old DNS to new one which you will get in your welcome email. Once your registrar updates new nameserves you will need to wait 24-72 hr to get the new DNS to propagate worldwide and will reflect accordingly in whois info. After new DNS gets updated worldwide you can see the change in whois records for your domain.
Lastly check again if your site is working fine with updated DNS, if every thing is working fine you can forward request for cancellation of your hosting account with your old host.

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SSL is a cryptography protocol in application level of OSI basic reference module..If you have SSL certificate for your site and would like to manage it then cPanel will help you. cPanel have SSL/TLS manager using which will help you to manage your digital certificates. It help you to generate private keys and CSR without any intervention from your web host to allow you to buy SSL or TLS certificates. If you are technically sound then you can install your digital cert yourself. Usually you put SSL onto your site if you want to secure encrypted transaction through your site such as accessing credit/debit card data or any highly sensitive data.
SSL certificates come with different encryption levels such as 128bit or 256 bit, higher then number more secure is your SSL and more complex encryption of data is carried out. Prices differs from provider to provide depending on encryption level.

If your site is ecommerce site where user are giving you their credit/debit card details for gettting your service then you should have SSL certificate on your site which will ensure security for your site, you should also display a seal on your website from the vendor that you bought your certificate from saying that your website is secure so that your clients can trust you.
If you have SSL installed on to your site then for your web url will starts  with https rather then http. ’s’ stands for secure site.
All SSL certificates requires an dedicated IP on which they are installed for your domain.
Thus SSL/TLS Manager of cpanel is very good tool for managing all issues related to your SSL certificates.

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