IonCube Loader is an instrument, that is required to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal use. A lot of script-driven apps, particularly forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you acquire a script and you find that ionCube is among the web hosting environment prerequisites, you need to ensure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it is not that hard to install it if you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server as the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all the cloud website hosting plans which we provide, so if you need it to set up and execute a script application that requires it, you can enable it with a single click in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Since you can change the PHP version that's active for your account in the same section, you will have to enable the instrument for every new version which you set. If you're more experienced, you will be able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you're able to operate both new and older script applications for multiple websites within the same account - something that you can't do with a lot of other hosting providers on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is provided with all of the semi-dedicated servers that we offer, which means that you won't experience any kind of problems in case you'd like to set up and use some script app which requires the tool in order to operate properly. Activating it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, which means that you're able to move forward with the app installation without any delays. For the reason that we employ an innovative tailor-made platform and we support many different versions of PHP at the same time, you will have to activate ionCube any time you switch to a version that you have not used before. In addition, you'll have the option to activate ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of program code inside it.