A lot of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app named ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you obtain a paid script and you intend to set it up in a website hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without having it, you can't install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it will not work effectively as most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a fresh hosting account and you'd like to use some paid web app. If you buy a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all web servers that are part of our cloud website hosting platform, which means that regardless of the Linux web hosting service that you choose during the signup process, you can activate it through your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first web hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The same section allows you to pick the PHP release for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5), so if you choose to move to some other version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Due to the fact that our platform is quite flexible, you can set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you need to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 support team will be able to help you within minutes.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you obtain a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you'll be able to employ any kind of script-driven application which requires ionCube Loader due to the fact that the tool is available on all the servers that are part of our advanced cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple versions of PHP, so if you switch from PHP 4 to 5.2 or 5.3, for instance, you can activate ionCube for that particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, and if you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the 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 name without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with several lines of program code.