IonCube Loader is a tool, which is necessary to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal use. Many script-driven applications, especially discussion forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you get a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the web hosting environment prerequisites, you need to make sure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although 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 hosting server as the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

When you get a cloud hosting plan through us, it'll be created on our custom-built cloud platform where ionCube Loader is already installed, so you will not have any problems to run any script app that needs the instrument so as to function appropriately. In addition, we offer you a few different releases of PHP, therefore if you switch the version, you will have to enable ionCube again. Our platform remembers the changes you make, and if you move back to the earlier release of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be activated. The PHP version and the ionCube instrument can be managed from the PHP Configuration part of our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Every change that you make takes literally just a mouse-click and it'll take effect immediately.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you obtain a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you can take advantage of any script-driven application that needs ionCube Loader as the tool is installed on all the servers that are part of our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform. Furthermore, we support several 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 that particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, and if you switch back to the previous release of PHP, the software instrument 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 whole website hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a few lines of program code.