IonCube Loader is a tool, which is needed to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering or unauthorized usage. A number of script-driven apps, especially community forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you get a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment requirements, you need to ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it's not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server due to the fact that the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is installed on all of the web servers that are part of our cloud website hosting platform, so irrespective of the Linux website hosting that you select during the signup process, you can enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The same section allows you to pick the PHP version for your account (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), so if you decide to move to another version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is quite flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you'd like to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 support team shall help you within minutes.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you'll be able to use any kind of script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader as the software tool is available on all servers which are a part of our advanced cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple versions of PHP, which means that 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 release with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so in case you switch back to the earlier release of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a few lines of program code.