Plenty of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you get a paid script and you wish to install it in a web hosting account, an instrument known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without this, you will not be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do this, it will not operate effectively as almost all of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a fresh website hosting account and you want to use some paid web application. If you purchase a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

When you buy a shared hosting plan from us, it'll be created on our custom-made cloud platform where ionCube Loader is already installed, so you will not have any kind of problems to manage any script application that needs the instrument to function appropriately. Furthermore, we offer a few different versions of PHP, therefore in case you change the version, you'll have to activate ionCube again. Our system remembers the adjustments you make, so when you switch back to the previous release of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be turned on. The PHP version as well as the ionCube tool can be operated through the PHP Configuration part of our Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. Every adjustment that you do takes literally just a mouse-click and it takes effect immediately.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you get a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you can take advantage of any kind of script-driven application that needs ionCube Loader since the software tool is available on all the servers that are part of our advanced cloud hosting platform. We also support different 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 example, you can enable ionCube for this particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, and if you move back to the earlier version of PHP, the instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with a couple of lines of program code.