IonCube Loader is an instrument, that is necessary to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or not authorized usage. A lot of script-driven apps, especially message boards, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you get a script and you find that ionCube is among the hosting environment prerequisites, you have to ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it's not that difficult to set it up when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting

When you aquire a Linux cloud website hosting through us, it'll be created on our custom-made cloud platform where ionCube Loader is already set up, so you won't have any kind of problems to run any script application that needs the tool so as to function properly. In addition, we provide several different releases of PHP, so in case you change the version, you will need to activate ionCube again. Our system remembers the adjustments you make, so if you go back to the earlier release of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be turned on. Both the PHP version as well as the ionCube instrument can be operated through the PHP Configuration section of our Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. Every change that you do takes literally just a click and it will take effect right away.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you aquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to use any script-driven app that needs ionCube Loader since the tool is installed on all servers which are part of our advanced cloud web hosting platform. In addition, we support various releases of PHP, which means that 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 activate ionCube for that particular release with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, so in case you move back to the earlier version of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also offer the option to pick the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the entire website hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with a few lines of code.