Lots of script-driven applications, particularly paid content management systems, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you acquire a paid script and you want to install it in a hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without this, you cannot install the script or if you somehow manage to do that, it will not work appropriately because almost all of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a fresh website hosting account and you wish to employ some paid web application. If you get a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all web servers that are a part of our cloud hosting platform, therefore regardless of the shared website hosting plan that you choose during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it from your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The very same section enables you to pick the PHP release 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), so in case you want to move to another version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Due to the fact that our platform is rather flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you want to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team will be able to assist you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is available with all of the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, which means that you will not have any kind of problems if you would like to install and use some script application that requires the instrument so as to operate properly. Activating it is as easy as clicking a button in the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, therefore you'll be able to move forward with the app set up without delay. For the reason that we use a cutting-edge in-house built platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you will have to enable ionCube every time you move to a version that you have not used before. In addition, you'll have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of program code inside it.