IonCube Loader is a tool, that is necessary to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized use. Lots of script-driven apps, especially forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you get a script and you notice that ionCube is on the list of hosting environment requirements, you have to ensure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it is not that hard to set it up when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is available on all the web servers that are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, so irrespective of the shared service that you get during the signup process, you can activate it through your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The same section enables you to pick 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 if you want to switch to a different version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Since our platform is very flexible, you can even set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you need to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 support team shall assist you quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
IonCube Loader is available with all of the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, and you will not encounter any kind of problems if you would like to set up and work with some script application that requires the tool to function appropriately. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a single button inside the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in a minute, therefore you can proceed with the application installation without delay. For the reason that we use a cutting-edge in-house made platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you will need to enable ionCube every 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 release different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of program code in it.