IonCube Loader is a software tool, that's necessary to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application employed to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal usage. A lot of script-driven applications, particularly forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment requirements, you should make sure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it's not that hard to set it up when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment should be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is available on all of the web servers that are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, so regardless of the website hosting service that you choose during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The exact same section enables 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), which means that if you would like to switch to a different version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is flexible, you may even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you want to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 support team will assist you within minutes.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application that needs this tool in order to work properly. With several clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for the account. Since we support multiple releases of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to do that each time you move to a different version, but when you revert back to a version that you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be activated. If you have several websites inside the same account and they require 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 code you are able to define both the PHP version plus the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.