IonCube Loader is an instrument, which is needed to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal usage. A large number of script-driven applications, in particular discussion boards, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you buy a script and you find that ionCube is on the list of web hosting environment requirements, you should ensure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it's not that difficult to set it up when 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 clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every Linux hosting package that we offer and you can enable it at any time with only a couple of clicks, so you can employ script applications which need it. You can do that through the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect within a minute, therefore you can go ahead and install the app that you would like right away. The very same section will allow you to change the PHP release which is active for your account, as we support a variety of versions on our advanced cloud platform. In case you move to a release that you have not used so far, you'll need to enable ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP version different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you can employ any script-driven app which requires ionCube Loader since the tool is available on all of the servers that are part of our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple versions of PHP, which means that 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 enable ionCube for this particular version with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, so if you switch back to the earlier release of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also offer the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a couple of lines of program code.