A lot of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files in order to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you acquire a paid script and you would like to install it in a website hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without this, you can't install the script or in case you somehow manage to do that, it will not operate appropriately due to the fact that most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a new hosting account and you want to use some paid web application. If you buy a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added since the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every shared web hosting that we supply and you'll be able to activate it anytime with just a few clicks, so you will be able to employ script applications which need it. You'll be able to do that from the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change will take effect within a minute, therefore you're able to proceed and set up the app that you'd like without delay. The very same section will allow you to switch the PHP version which is active for your account, because we support a number of releases on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform. If you move to a release that you haven't used so far, you'll need to activate ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder so as to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is provided with all of the semi-dedicated hosting plans that we offer, which means that you won't experience any problems in case you would like to set up and work with a script app which requires the software tool in order to operate properly. Activating it is as easy as clicking a single button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in a minute, which means that you will be able to move forward with the application installation without any delays. For the reason that we employ an avant-garde custom-built platform and we support several versions of PHP at the same time, you'll need to activate ionCube every time you move to a version that you have not used before. You will also have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by making a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of code inside it.