Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encode their files so as to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you purchase a paid script and you want to install it in a web hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without having it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow find a way to do this, it won't work properly since most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a new web hosting account and you want to take advantage of some paid web application. If you purchase a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added because the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Shared Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every Linux shared web hosting package that we provide and you can activate it anytime with only a few clicks, so you can take advantage of script applications which need it. You can do this from the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect in a minute, which means that you are able to proceed and install the application that you need right away. The exact same section will allow you to switch the PHP release which is active for your account, as we support a number of versions on our advanced cloud hosting platform. If you switch to a release that you have not used to date, you will have to activate ionCube Loader again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you get a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to use any script-driven application that needs ionCube Loader because the tool is installed on all of the servers which are a part of our modern cloud web hosting platform. In addition, we support multiple releases of PHP, so 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 that particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, so in case you switch back to the earlier version of PHP, the instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide 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 whole hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.