IonCube Loader is a software tool, which is needed to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering or illegal usage. A lot of script-driven applications, in particular community forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is among the web hosting environment requirements, you should ensure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it's not that hard to install it when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment should be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.
IonCube in Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux hosting package that we provide and you are able to activate it at any time with only a couple of clicks, so you can employ script applications which require it. You are able to do this from the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect in a minute, therefore you can go ahead and set up the app that you need right away. The very same section will allow you to switch the PHP release that is active for your account, as we support multiple releases on our advanced cloud hosting platform. In case you move to a version that you have never used to date, you will need to enable ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder in order to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you aquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you'll be able to employ any kind of script-driven app that needs ionCube Loader since the software tool is installed on all servers that are part of our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform. We also support different versions of PHP, therefore if you switch 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 this particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so in case you switch back to the earlier release of PHP, the instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the whole website hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file in a domain folder with a couple of lines of program code.