IonCube Loader is an instrument, that's necessary to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized use. A lot of script-driven apps, in particular discussion boards, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is among the web hosting environment requirements, you have to make sure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it is not that hard to install it if you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server because the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all the web servers which are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, which means that irrespective of the Linux shared hosting package that you pick during the signup process, you will be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. 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), and in case you decide to switch to some other version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. As our platform is rather flexible, you can set another PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you need to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 support team will assist you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application that needs the tool in order to work efficiently. With a couple of clicks in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for the account. Since we support a couple of versions of PHP simultaneously, you will need to do this each time you move to a different version, and if you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be activated. In case you have several websites in the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you can set up a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of program code you will be able to define both the PHP version and the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the website hosting account altogether.