IonCube Loader is a software tool, that's necessary to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized use. Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly community forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you buy a script and you find that ionCube is among the web hosting environment requirements, you have to ensure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it's not that hard to install it when you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server because the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all web servers that are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, so regardless of the Linux web hosting that you choose during the signup process, you will be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complex. The exact same section allows you to choose the PHP release for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5), so if you want to switch to another version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. As our platform is rather flexible, you may even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you wish to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 support team will be able to assist you within minutes.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you can use any script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader due to the fact that the tool is available on all of the servers which are part of our advanced cloud website hosting platform. We also support various versions of PHP, therefore if you move from PHP 4 to 5.2 or 5.3, for instance, you can activate ionCube for that particular release with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so in case you switch back to the earlier release of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to select the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the whole web hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with several lines of code.