Plenty of script-driven applications, especially paid cms, encode their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you purchase a paid script and you want to install it in a website hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without this, you cannot install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it will not work efficiently since most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a fresh web hosting account and you would like to work with some paid web application. If you get a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added as the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all the web servers which are part of our cloud hosting platform, so irrespective of the shared web hosting that you pick during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The very same section allows 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), so if you choose to switch to another version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is flexible, you may even set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you want to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will be able to help you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

As all the 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 that needs the tool in order to work properly. With a couple of clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for your account. Because we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you'll need to do this each and every time you move to a different release, but when you revert back to a version which you've already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be activated. In case you have multiple sites inside the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you are able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with a couple of lines of program code you will be able to define both the PHP release and the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the hosting account as a whole.