IonCube Loader is a software tool, which is needed to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and / or not authorized usage. Various script-driven applications, especially discussion forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is among the website hosting environment prerequisites, you have to ensure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it's not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all of the web servers that are part of our cloud web hosting platform, therefore irrespective of the cloud web hosting service that you select during the signup process, you will be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first web hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complex. The same section allows you to select 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), so in case you would like to switch to a different version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is flexible, you can set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you wish to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 technical support team shall assist you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Due to the fact that all semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script app that needs the software tool so as to work effectively. With a couple of clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel you will be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for your account. Since we support a couple of versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to do that every time you move to a new version, and if you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. When you have several websites inside the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you can create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of code you will be able to define both the PHP release plus the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the hosting account altogether.