A lot of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so, in case you get a paid script and you wish to install it in a web hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it won't function efficiently for the reason that almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a new web hosting account and you'd like to work with some paid web app. If you obtain a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added since the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all of the cloud web hosting plans that we offer, so when you require it to install and execute some script app that requires it, you can activate it with a single click inside the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. As you can switch the PHP version that's active for your account from the same section, you need to enable the tool for each new version which you set. When you are more skillful, you will be able to 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 this particular site only, without affecting the whole account. Thus you are able to manage both new and older script apps for multiple websites inside the same account - a thing that you cannot do with a lot of other hosting suppliers on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you can take advantage of any kind of script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader since the software tool is installed on all servers which are part of our advanced cloud web hosting platform. We also support various 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 instance, you can activate ionCube for this particular version with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so in case you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to select the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the whole website hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.