IonCube Loader is a software tool, that is needed to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized use. A number of script-driven apps, especially discussion forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you acquire a script and you find that ionCube is one of the web hosting environment requirements, you should make sure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it's not that hard to install it if you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Shared Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each shared website hosting plan that we supply and you can enable it anytime with just a few clicks, so you can take advantage of script applications that need it. You're able to do that from the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to enable or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect in a minute, therefore you will be able to proceed and set up the application that you would like right away. The exact same section will allow you to change the PHP version which is active for your account, because we support multiple releases on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform. If you move to a version that you've never used to date, you will need to activate ionCube Loader again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder so as to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you aquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to use any kind of script-driven app which requires ionCube Loader because the tool is installed on all the servers which are part of our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform. In addition, we support several versions of PHP, and if you move 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 this particular version with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, and if you switch back to the previous release of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to pick the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with several lines of program code.