IonCube Loader is a tool, that's required to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal usage. Many script-driven apps, especially discussion forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is among the hosting environment prerequisites, you need to make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it's not that hard to install it if you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment should be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all the shared hosting plans which we provide, so any time you need it to set up and execute some script app which needs it, you can enable it with a single click from the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. As you're able to change the PHP release that's active for your account in the same section, you will have to enable the tool for every new version which you set. When you are more experienced, you will be able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you're able to operate both new and older script apps for multiple websites in the same account - a thing that you can't do with numerous other web hosting suppliers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Due to the fact that all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script app which needs the tool in order to work effectively. With several clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Because we support multiple versions of PHP concurrently, you'll have to do that each time you switch to a different version, 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 activated. In case you have several sites in the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you'll be able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with a couple of lines of code you're able to define both the PHP version and the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the hosting account altogether.