If you sell access to content on your website, some users may decide they will buy or create a single user account and give the account out to other people to use free. Leech protection helps stop this practice. At the time of writing, the Leech Protect feature is something that not all web hosts offer since it is not part of the core set of cPanel features.

Turning on Leech Protect watches your secured directories to see how often each user is accessing your protected directories. If the user goes over the maximum number of logins in any 2‑hour period (you set the maximum number), Leech Protect will either e‑mail you, or block the user’s account, or both (as you choose).

This feature can be useful if you have a members‑only section of your website controlled by cPanel’s password‑protected directories feature (which is really just a front end for Apache’s standard password protection features). However, this cannot be used if...