Plenty of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files in order to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you obtain a paid script and you'd like to install it in a hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it will not operate properly because almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is present if you get a fresh hosting account and you wish to work with some paid web application. If you obtain a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added as the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all of the shared hosting packages which we supply, so every time you require it to install and execute some script app which requires it, you can enable it with a single click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you are able to change the PHP release that's active for your account in the same section, you will have to activate the instrument for each new version which you set. If you're more experienced, you will be able to take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you're able to manage both new and older script applications for multiple websites in the same account - a thing that you won't be able to do with a lot of other web hosting providers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you aquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you can use any kind of script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader due to the fact that the tool comes with all the servers that are part of our innovative cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple releases of PHP, therefore 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 instance, you can enable ionCube for this particular release with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, so if you move back to the earlier release of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with several lines of code.