IonCube Loader is a software instrument, which is necessary to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal use. Numerous script-driven applications, especially discussion forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you get a script and you notice that ionCube is among the website hosting environment prerequisites, you should make sure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it's not that difficult to install it if you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud plan through us, it'll be set up on our tailor-made cloud hosting platform where ionCube Loader is already set up, so you will not have any kind of problems to run any script app which needs the instrument in order to run appropriately. Furthermore, we offer you a few different releases of PHP, so if you change the version, you'll need to enable ionCube once again. Our platform remembers the adjustments you make, which means that if you go back to the earlier version of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be activated. Both the PHP version and the ionCube instrument can be managed from the PHP Configuration section of our Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. Each adjustment that you do takes literally just a mouse-click and it will take effect at once.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is available with all the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, which means that you will not have any problems if you'd like to install and use some script app which requires the software instrument so as to operate appropriately. Activating it is as simple as clicking a button inside the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, so you'll be able to move forward with the application set up without any delays. Due to the fact that we employ an avant-garde in-house built platform and we support a number of versions of PHP at the same time, you'll have to enable ionCube any time you switch to a version that you have not used before. In addition, you'll 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.