Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encode their files to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you get a paid script and you'd like to install it in a web hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without it, you will not be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do that, it won't operate effectively due to the fact that most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a new web hosting account and you wish to work with some paid web app. If you acquire a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added as the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all web servers that are part of our cloud hosting platform, therefore regardless of the shared website hosting that you get during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complex. The very same section allows you to pick 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), and if you want to move to another version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is quite flexible, you can set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you'd like to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will help you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to take advantage of any kind of script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader for the reason that the tool is available on all servers that are a part of our revolutionary cloud web hosting platform. In addition, we support various releases of PHP, and 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 activate ionCube for that particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, and if you switch back to the earlier version of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to pick the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with several lines of code.