IonCube Loader is an instrument, that's required 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 not authorized usage. Various script-driven applications, particularly community forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you acquire a script and you find that ionCube is on the list of web hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it is not that difficult to install it when you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server as the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all the web servers that are a part of our cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the website hosting that you select during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The exact same section enables 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), so in case you choose to switch to some other version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is really flexible, you may even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you would like to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 technical support team will be able to help you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you get a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to employ any script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader since the tool is installed on all of the servers that are part of our innovative cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple versions of PHP, therefore if you switch from PHP 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, for instance, you can enable ionCube for this particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, and in case you switch back to the previous release of PHP, the instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to pick the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file in a domain folder with several lines of code.