IonCube Loader is a software tool, that's required to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and not authorized use. A lot of script-driven apps, particularly discussion forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is among the hosting environment prerequisites, you need to ensure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While 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 web hosting server as the PHP environment should be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all of the web servers which are part of our cloud website hosting platform, so whatever the web hosting that you select during the signup process, you can enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The 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 move to another version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Due to the fact that our platform is really flexible, you can set a different 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 be able to assist you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

As all 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 which requires this tool in order to run properly. With just a few clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Because we support several releases of PHP simultaneously, you'll have to do that each time you move to a different release, but if you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. In case you have a couple of sites inside the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you'll be able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of program code you're able to define both the PHP release as well as the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the web hosting account altogether.