IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that is necessary to run files which are protected 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 or illegal use. Plenty of script-driven applications, in particular discussion forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is on the list of web hosting environment requirements, you should make sure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it is not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server due to the fact that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all web servers which are part of our cloud hosting platform, which means that irrespective of the Linux website hosting package that you choose during the signup process, you can enable it through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The exact same section allows you to pick 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 if you would like to switch to a different version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is very flexible, you can set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you want to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team shall help you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all semi-dedicated hosting that we supply, so you won't experience any problems in case you'd like to set up and work with some script app which requires the tool to operate appropriately. Activating it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in less than a minute, which means that you will be able to proceed with the app installation without any delays. Due to the fact that we use a hi-tech custom-built platform and we support a number of versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll have to activate ionCube every time you move to a version that you have not used before. You will also have the option to enable ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by making a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of program code inside it.