IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that is needed to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering or unauthorized use. A number of script-driven apps, particularly discussion boards, cms and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is on the list of hosting environment prerequisites, you have to ensure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it is not that hard to install it when you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every Linux web hosting that we offer and you can enable it anytime with just a couple of clicks, so you can work with script apps which require it. You will be able to do this from the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to enable or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change will take effect in a minute, so you are able to go ahead and install the app that you would like right away. The exact same section allows you to switch the PHP release that is active for your account, because we support multiple releases on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform. If you switch to a release that you have never used so far, you will need to activate ionCube Loader again. Experienced users can 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

IonCube Loader is available with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, so you will not experience any kind of problems in case you'd like to install and work with some script application which requires the software instrument to function appropriately. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a button inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, which means that you're able to proceed with the application set up without delay. For the reason that we employ a revolutionary tailor-made platform and we support multiple versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to activate ionCube every time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. Additionally, you have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of code inside it.