A lot of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encode their files so as to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you get a paid script and you intend to install it in a website hosting account, a tool known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without having it, you will not be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do this, it will not function effectively because most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a new website hosting account and you'd like to work with some paid web application. If you obtain a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added since the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is available on all web servers which are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore regardless of the cloud plan that you get during the signup process, you will be able to activate 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 is your first hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The exact same section allows you to pick the PHP version 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 if you decide to move to a different version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is quite flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you'd like to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team will be able to help you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you get a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you can use any script-driven application which requires ionCube Loader for the reason that the software tool is available on all the servers that are a part of our revolutionary cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support various releases 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 instance, you can enable ionCube for this particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, and if you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the 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 specific domain without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with several lines of code.