IonCube Loader is a software tool, that's needed to run files that are encrypted 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 or unauthorized usage. A great number of script-driven applications, in particular forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is on the list of hosting environment requirements, you have to ensure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it is not that difficult 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 should be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each Linux hosting plan that we supply and you're able to enable it anytime with just a few clicks, so you can take advantage of script applications which need it. You will be able to do this through the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect in a minute, which means that you can proceed and install the app that you need right away. The exact same section will allow you to change the PHP version which is active for your account, because we support a variety of versions on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform. In case you move to a version that you haven't used so far, you will need to enable ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder in order to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you aquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to take advantage of any script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader for the reason that the software tool is installed on all servers that are part of our innovative cloud website hosting platform. We also support different versions 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 example, you can activate ionCube for this particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, so in case you move back to the earlier release of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the whole web hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a couple of lines of program code.