IonCube Loader is an instrument, that's needed to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized usage. A lot of script-driven apps, particularly discussion forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you acquire a script and you find that ionCube is on the list of web hosting environment prerequisites, you should make sure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it is not that difficult to install it if you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server since the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all of the shared hosting packages that we offer, so any time you require it in order to install and execute a script application that needs it, you can activate it with a single click from the Advanced section of your Hepsia Control Panel. As you can change the PHP release that is active for your account in the same section, you will have to enable the tool for each new version that you set. When you are more experienced, you can take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the entire account. In this way you will be able to run both new and older script applications for multiple websites in the same account - a thing that you won't be able to do with various other website hosting providers on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Since all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application which requires the software tool so as to run properly. With just a few clicks in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for the account. Since we support multiple versions of PHP concurrently, you'll have to do that every time you switch to a new version, but when you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. If you have multiple sites inside the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you will be able to set up a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with several lines of code you will be able to define both the PHP release plus the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.