IonCube Loader is a software instrument, which is necessary to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized use. Plenty of script-driven apps, especially online forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you obtain a script and you find that ionCube is among the hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While 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 for the reason that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Cloud Hosting
IonCube Loader is present on all of the web servers which are a part of our cloud hosting platform, so irrespective of the Linux cloud hosting that you select during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The exact same section allows you to choose the PHP version 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), which means that in case you decide to move to some other version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is really flexible, you may even set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing 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, the 24/7 support team will assist you quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you obtain a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to take advantage of any script-driven app that needs ionCube Loader as the tool is available on all the servers that are part of our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform. In addition, we support several versions of PHP, so 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 that particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, and if you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with several lines of program code.