Plenty of script-driven applications, especially paid cms, encode their files to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you get a paid script and you'd like to install it in a website hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without having it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do this, it will not function appropriately due to the fact that almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you should make sure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a new hosting account and you'd like to use some paid web application. If you get a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added as the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all web servers that are a part of our cloud hosting platform, therefore whatever the Linux hosting that you pick during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it through your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complex. The exact same section allows you to select 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 would like to move to a different version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is flexible, you may even set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you want to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team will help you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is provided with all semi-dedicated hosting plans that we supply, which means that you will not experience any problems if you'd like to set up and work with some script app that requires the tool in order to function properly. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, which means that you will be able to move forward with the app installation without delay. Since we employ a cutting-edge custom-built platform and we support many different versions of PHP simultaneously, 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 and even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of code in it.