A lot of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files so as to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you obtain a paid script and you wish to set it up in a website hosting account, an instrument called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without having it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do that, it will not operate efficiently due to the fact that most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a fresh web hosting account and you wish to work with some paid web application. If you acquire a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added because the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all the web servers which are part of our cloud hosting platform, which means that whatever the shared website hosting service that you choose during the signup process, you will be able to enable it through your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The exact same section will allow you to select 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 decide to switch to some other version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is really flexible, you can set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you wish to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team will help you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is available with all the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, and you will not experience any problems in case you'd like to set up and use some script app which requires the software instrument so as to operate properly. Enabling it is as easy as clicking a button inside the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, so you're able to proceed with the application set up without any delays. For the reason that we employ an avant-garde in-house built platform and we support many different versions of PHP at the same time, you will have to enable ionCube any time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. Additionally, you have the option to activate ionCube loader or even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of program code within it.