IonCube Loader is a tool, that is needed to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering or unauthorized use. Lots of script-driven applications, particularly discussion forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you acquire a script and you find that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment requirements, you should ensure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it is not that difficult to install it if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.
IonCube in Hosting
IonCube Loader is available on all the web servers which are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, which means that regardless of the hosting package that you pick during the signup process, you can activate it through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The very same section allows you to pick the PHP version for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2), which means that if you decide to switch to another version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is flexible, you may even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you'd like to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 support team will be able to assist you within minutes.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Due to the fact that all semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script application which requires this software tool in order to function properly. With several clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. Since we support a couple of releases of PHP at the same time, you'll have to do this each and every time you switch to a new version, but if you revert back to a version that you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. In case you have a couple of websites inside the same account and they require different releases of PHP, you are able to set up a php.ini file in each and every domain folder and with several lines of code you're able to define both the PHP version and the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.