IonCube Loader is an instrument, that is required to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal use. A lot of script-driven apps, particularly online forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you get a script and you find that ionCube is on the list of website hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it is not that difficult to set it up if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux shared web hosting service that we supply and you can activate it at any time with just a few clicks, so you will be able to take advantage of script apps which require it. You will be able to do that through the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect within a minute, which means that you'll be able to proceed and install the app that you would like without delay. The exact same section will allow you to switch the PHP version that's active for your account, because we support multiple versions on our hi-tech cloud hosting platform. If you switch to a release that you haven't used so far, you will need to activate ionCube Loader again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder so as to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since all semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script app which needs the software tool to function properly. With just a few clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for your account. Because we support a couple of versions of PHP at the same time, you will need to do this every time you switch to a new release, and if you revert back to a release which you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. In case you have several websites inside the same account and they require different releases of PHP, you're able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with several lines of program code you will be able to define both the PHP version plus the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.