A lot of script-driven applications, especially paid content management systems, encode their files to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you acquire a paid script and you would like to set it up in a web hosting account, an instrument known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without this, you cannot install the script or in case you somehow manage to do that, it will not work effectively as almost all of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a fresh web hosting account and you'd like to work with some paid web app. If you purchase a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all the web servers which are part of our cloud web hosting platform, therefore regardless of the web hosting that you pick during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first web hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complicated. The very same section allows you to choose 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 in case you choose to switch to another version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Due to the fact that our platform is rather flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you would like to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team shall assist you within minutes.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Since all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script app which requires the software tool to function effectively. With a couple of clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you can activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. Because we support multiple releases of PHP concurrently, you'll have to do this any time you switch to a different release, and when you revert back to a release which you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. In case you have multiple sites in the same account and they require different releases of PHP, you will be able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of program code you'll be able to define both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the hosting account altogether.