IonCube Loader is a tool, that is required to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and not authorized use. Numerous script-driven applications, in particular online forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you obtain a script and you find that ionCube is among the website hosting environment prerequisites, you have to make sure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it's not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server as the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all shared web hosting packages that we offer, so when you require it to install and execute a script app that requires it, you can enable it with a click in the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. As you're able to change the PHP version which is active for your account from the same section, you need to enable the instrument for each new version which you set. When you are more skillful, you're able to take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular website only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you are able to operate both new and older script apps for multiple sites in the same account - something that you can't do with lots of other website hosting service providers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from us, you can take advantage of any script-driven application that needs ionCube Loader because the tool is available on all of the servers which are a part of our modern cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support different versions of PHP, therefore if you move from PHP 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, for example, you can activate ionCube for that particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, so in case you move back to the previous version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a few lines of program code.