IonCube Loader is a software tool, that is needed to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and / or not authorized use. A lot of script-driven apps, in particular community forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is on the list of website hosting environment prerequisites, you should make sure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it's not that hard to install it if you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.
IonCube in Shared Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each Linux shared website hosting that we supply and you will be able to activate it at any time with just a few clicks, so you will be able to work with script applications which need it. You're able to do this through the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect in a minute, which means that you will be able to proceed and set up the application that you would like without delay. The exact same section allows you to switch the PHP version that's active for your account, as we support a number of releases on our advanced cloud hosting platform. In case you switch to a version that you've never used so far, you'll need to activate ionCube Loader again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder so as to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you can employ any script-driven app that needs ionCube Loader as the software tool is available on all of the servers that are part of our modern cloud hosting platform. Furthermore, we support different versions of PHP, which means that if you move 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 activate ionCube for that particular release with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so in case you switch back to the earlier version of PHP, the instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with several lines of code.