IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that's required to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering or illegal usage. A lot of script-driven apps, particularly community forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is on the list of hosting environment prerequisites, you need to ensure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it's not that hard to set it up when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment should be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.
IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is available on all web servers that are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore regardless of the cloud website hosting that you pick during the signup process, you can activate it through your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you will not need 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, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2), and in case you decide to move to another version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Since our platform is quite flexible, you may even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you would like to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 support team will assist you in no time.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Since all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script app which needs the tool so as to work efficiently. With several clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for your account. Because we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll have to do that every time you move to a new release, and if you revert back to a release which you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. If you have multiple websites in the same account and they require different versions of PHP, you will be able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with a couple of lines of program code you'll be able to define both the PHP release as well as the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.