IonCube Loader is an instrument, that is necessary to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering or not authorized use. A lot of script-driven applications, particularly forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the web hosting environment requirements, you have to make sure that your web 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 as the PHP environment should be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all of the web servers that are part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore whatever the Linux website hosting that you choose during the signup process, you can enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The very same section allows you to select 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 in case you choose to switch to a different version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Since our platform is really flexible, you may even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you wish to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will assist you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you obtain a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you can use any script-driven application that needs ionCube Loader as the tool is installed on all the servers that are a part of our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform. We also support different releases of PHP, therefore 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 this particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, and if you move back to the previous release of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide 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 web hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.