IonCube Loader is an instrument, which is required to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering or illegal usage. Numerous script-driven apps, in particular forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is on the list of hosting environment requirements, you should ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it is not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all of the web servers which are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore regardless of the Linux website hosting plan that you choose during the signup process, you can enable it through your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first web hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The exact same section enables 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), so if you would like to switch to some other version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is quite flexible, you can set a different PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you need to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 support team will assist you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you buy a semi-dedicated server package from us, you'll be able to take advantage of any kind of script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader for the reason that the tool comes with all servers which are a part of our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform. In addition, we support several releases of PHP, which means that 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 that particular release with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, so if you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also offer the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with several lines of code.