IonCube Loader is an instrument, that is necessary to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized usage. A large number of script-driven apps, in particular discussion boards, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you acquire a script and you find that ionCube is among the website hosting environment requirements, you need to ensure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it is not that difficult to set it up if you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment should be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single shared web hosting plan that we offer and you'll be able to activate it anytime with just a few clicks, so you'll be able to use script apps that need it. You're able to do that from the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a button. The change will take effect within a minute, so you're able to go ahead and set up the application that you'd like right away. The same section will allow you to change the PHP release that's active for your account, as we support a number of releases on our hi-tech cloud hosting platform. In case you move to a release that you have not used so far, you'll need to enable ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a specific 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 Servers

As 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 application which needs the tool so as to function effectively. With a couple of clicks in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you will be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. Because we support multiple releases of PHP concurrently, you will need to do this each and every time you switch to a new release, and when you revert back to a release which you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. When you have multiple sites in the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you're able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with several lines of program code you're able to define both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.