IonCube Loader is an instrument, which is necessary to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal use. A number of script-driven apps, especially discussion forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is on the list of website hosting environment requirements, you should make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it is not that hard to install it when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment should be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all of the web servers that are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore regardless of the Linux website hosting package that you choose during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it through your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complex. The very 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), so if you decide to switch to a different version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is really flexible, you may even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you need to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team will help you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Due to the fact that all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script application which requires the software tool so as to run properly. With a couple of clicks in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Since we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you will need to do this any time you move to a different version, but when you revert back to a version which you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. In case you have multiple sites inside the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you can create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with several lines of code you're able to define both the PHP release plus the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.