A lot of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files so as to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you obtain a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without this, you cannot install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do this, it won't work appropriately since almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a new website hosting account and you would like to work with some paid web application. If you acquire a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each cloud web hosting service that we offer and you're able to enable it anytime with only a few clicks, so you will be able to employ script apps that need it. You are able to do that through the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to enable or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect within a minute, therefore you can go ahead and install the application that you would like right away. The same section will allow you to switch the PHP release which is active for your account, because we support several versions on our hi-tech cloud hosting platform. In case you move to a release that you haven't used so far, you'll need to enable ionCube Loader again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder so as to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you obtain a semi-dedicated server package from us, you can use any script-driven app which requires ionCube Loader as the tool is available on all servers which are part of our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support several versions of PHP, which means that 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 example, you can activate ionCube for that particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, and if you move back to the previous version of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to pick the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a few lines of code.