IonCube Loader is an instrument, which is needed to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering or not authorized use. Various script-driven applications, especially discussion forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the hosting environment requirements, you should make sure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it is not that difficult to install it when you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all of the web servers which are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, so irrespective of the Linux cloud web hosting plan that you get during the signup process, you will be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The exact same section will allow you to choose 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), which means that if you choose to switch to a different version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Due to the fact that our platform is quite flexible, you can set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you would like to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team shall assist you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

As all the semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application which requires the tool to run efficiently. With just a few clicks in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you will be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for your account. As we support multiple versions of PHP concurrently, you'll need to do this any time you switch to a new version, and when you revert back to a release which you've already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. If you have a couple of sites in the same account and they require different releases of PHP, you're able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with several lines of program code you can define both the PHP release as well as the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the website hosting account altogether.