Plenty of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encrypt their files so as to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you purchase a paid script and you want to set it up in a web hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without this, you can't install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it will not operate efficiently due to the fact that most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a new hosting account and you want to use some paid web application. If you acquire a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is available on all of the web servers that are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, which means that regardless of the cloud package that you get during the signup process, you'll be able to enable 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 web hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complex. The exact same section allows 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 if you choose to switch to some other version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is rather flexible, you may even set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you wish to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 technical support team shall help you within minutes.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As 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 app which requires this tool in order to work efficiently. With a couple of 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 your account. Because we support multiple releases of PHP concurrently, you'll have to do that any time you switch to a different version, and when you revert back to a version that you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. In case you have several sites in the same account and they require different releases of PHP, you will be able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with several lines of code you will be able to define both the PHP release and the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.