IonCube Loader is a software tool, that is needed to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering or illegal use. Numerous script-driven applications, particularly forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you buy a script and you find that ionCube is one of the hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it is not that difficult to set it up if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server as the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all of the cloud web hosting packages which we provide, so when you require it in order to set up and run a script app that requires it, you can activate it with a single click inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you can change the PHP version which is active for your account in the same section, you'll have to activate the tool for any new version that you set. When you are more experienced, you will be able to employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you are able to run both new and older script applications for multiple websites in the same account - something that you cannot do with a lot of other website hosting suppliers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is available with all the Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans that we supply, and you won't have any problems in case you would like to set up and work with some script application that requires the instrument to function appropriately. Activating it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, which means that you can move forward with the application set up without delay. Because we use an innovative custom-built platform and we support multiple versions of PHP simultaneously, you will need to enable ionCube every time you move to a version that you have not used before. In addition, you'll have the option to activate ionCube loader or even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of code inside it.