Plenty of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encode their files so as to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so, in case you obtain a paid script and you intend to set it up in a hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without this, you can't install the script or in case you somehow manage to do this, it will not function efficiently for the reason that most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a new hosting account and you want to use some paid web application. If you acquire a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added as the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all web servers that are part of our cloud web hosting platform, so regardless of the Linux cloud website hosting package that you choose during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complex. The exact same section will allow you to pick 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), and in case you would like to move to some other version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is very flexible, you can 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 wish to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will help you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, so you will not experience any kind of problems if you would like to install and use a script application which requires the instrument in order to function properly. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a button inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in less than a minute, so you are able to move forward with the application set up without any delays. Because we use a revolutionary custom platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you will need to activate ionCube any time you move to a version that you haven't used before. You will also have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of code inside it.