Lots of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encode their files to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you acquire a paid script and you intend to set it up in a hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without having it, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow manage to do that, it won't operate appropriately since most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a new website hosting account and you want to take advantage of some paid web app. If you acquire a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all the hosting plans that we supply, so any time you need it in order to set up and execute some script app that requires it, you can enable it with a click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. As you can change the PHP release that's active for your account from the same section, you will have to activate the instrument for each new version which you set. When you are more experienced, you will be able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for this particular website only, without affecting the entire account. This way you will be able to operate both new and older script applications for multiple sites within the same account - something that you can't do with numerous other website hosting providers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get a semi-dedicated server package from us, you can use any kind of script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader because the software tool is available on all servers which are part of our innovative cloud website hosting platform. We also support multiple versions of PHP, and 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 activate ionCube for that particular release with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, and in case you move back to the previous version of PHP, the instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file in a domain folder with a few lines of code.