IonCube Loader is a tool, that's necessary to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and not authorized usage. A lot of script-driven applications, particularly discussion boards, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you buy a script and you find that ionCube is among the web hosting environment prerequisites, you need to ensure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it's not that hard to install it if you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server as the PHP environment shall 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 the cloud web hosting packages that we supply, so any time you require it in order to set up and run some script app which needs it, you can enable it with a click inside the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Because you'll be able to switch the PHP release which is active for your account from the same section, you'll have to activate the tool for any new version that you set. If you are more experienced, you can take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the entire account. This way you will be able to operate both new and older script apps for multiple sites in the same account - something that you can't do with numerous other hosting providers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Due to the fact that 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 software tool so as to function properly. With several clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you can activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Because we support several releases of PHP concurrently, you'll have to do that every time you move to a new release, but if you revert back to a release that you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. If you have multiple sites in the same account and they require different versions of PHP, you'll be able to set up a php.ini file in each and every domain folder and with several lines of code you'll be able to define both the PHP release and the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the hosting account as a whole.