A lot of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you acquire a paid script and you'd like to install it in a hosting account, a tool known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without this, you can't install the script or in case you somehow manage to do that, it will not function appropriately because most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you should make sure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a new website hosting account and you wish to use some paid web app. If you buy a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added since your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single cloud hosting plan that we supply and you'll be able to activate it at any time with just a couple of clicks, so you'll be able to work with script apps that need it. You're able to do that through the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect in a minute, therefore you will be able to proceed and set up the app that you'd like right away. The exact same section will allow you to switch the PHP version which is active for your account, because we support a number of versions on our cutting-edge cloud platform. If you move to a version that you haven't used so far, you'll have to enable ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder so as to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is provided with all the semi-dedicated servers that we offer, so you won't have any problems if you would like to set up and use some script application that requires the tool so as to function appropriately. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a button in the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in less than a minute, therefore you will be able to move forward with the application set up without delay. Since we use an avant-garde tailor-made platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you will need to enable ionCube every time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. You will also have the option to enable ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of code inside it.