Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an app known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you acquire a paid script and you would like to set it up in a web hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it will not work properly as most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a new web hosting account and you'd like to work with some paid web application. If you purchase a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all the shared website hosting packages that we supply, so any time you need it to set up and execute a script application which requires it, you can activate it with a click from the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. Since you can change the PHP version which is active for your account from the same section, you'll have to enable the tool for each new version which you set. If you are more experienced, you can use 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 whole account. This way you're able to run both new and older script apps for multiple sites within the same account - something that you won't be able to do with lots of other web hosting providers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you'll be able to use any script-driven application which needs ionCube Loader because the tool is available on all the servers that are a part of our advanced cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple releases of PHP, therefore if you switch 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 instance, you can activate ionCube for this particular version with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, so in case you switch back to the earlier release of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to pick the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with several lines of code.