IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that's needed to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal use. Lots of script-driven apps, especially 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 among the website hosting environment requirements, you have to make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it is not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all the web servers that are part of our cloud hosting platform, therefore regardless of the web hosting service that you select during the signup process, you will be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The same section enables you to pick the PHP version for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5), so if you would like to move to some other version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is flexible, you can even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you would like to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 support team will be able to assist you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is provided with all of the Linux semi-dedicated service that we offer, and you will not have any problems if you'd like to set up and work with a script application which requires the instrument in order to function appropriately. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, so you'll be able to move forward with the application installation without any delays. Due to the fact that we employ an innovative custom-built platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you'll need to activate ionCube every time you move to a version that you haven't used before. In addition, you'll have the option to activate ionCube loader and even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by making a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of code within it.