Lots of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encode their files in order to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an app named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you purchase a paid script and you want to set it up in a hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do this, it will not work effectively because most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is present if you get a fresh hosting account and you wish to use some paid web app. If you obtain a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added as the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is available on all web servers that are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, which means that regardless of the Linux cloud hosting that you pick during the signup process, you will be able to enable it through your 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 website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The same section enables you to choose 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), and in case you would like to switch to another version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is very flexible, you can even set a different PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you want to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 support team will help you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all semi-dedicated hosting that we supply, and you will not have any kind of problems if you'd like to set up and use some script application that requires the software instrument so as to function appropriately. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in less than a minute, therefore you'll be able to move forward with the app set up without delay. Due to the fact that we employ a hi-tech tailor-made platform and we support many different versions of PHP at the same time, you will need to activate ionCube every time you move to a version that you haven't used before. In addition, you'll have the option to activate ionCube loader or even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by making a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of program code within it.