Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encode their files to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you acquire a paid script and you wish to install it in a website hosting account, an instrument known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it will not work properly since almost all of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a new website hosting account and you wish to take advantage of some paid web application. If you obtain a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added since your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all the web servers which are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore whatever the cloud service that you select during the signup process, you will be able to enable it through your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The exact same section enables you to choose the PHP release 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), which means that in case you would like to move to some other version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Since our platform is really flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you'd like to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 support team will help you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Each and every semi-dedicated server account that's created on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform features ionCube Loader support, so you'll be able to install any script app that needs the software tool. Then employ it to start and maintain your web presence. You can enable ionCube from the PHP Configuration area of the Control Panel and it will take you just a few clicks to do that. Your change will take effect instantly, which means that you'll be able to proceed and install the needed script in your account. If you'd like to change the PHP version that's active for the account, you will need to enable ionCube for the new release as well. Our in-house built platform also allows you to have a different PHP version for each and every domain or subdomain, which is done with a php.ini file in every domain folder. In the same way, you will be able to enable/disable ionCube Loader for each individual site hosted in your semi-dedicated account.