Plenty of script-driven applications, especially paid cms, encode their files in order to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you buy a paid script and you want to set it up in a web hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without having it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it will not work appropriately because most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a fresh hosting account and you would like to use some paid web app. If you get a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added as the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all of the web servers which are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore whatever the Linux cloud package that you choose during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The same section will allow you to choose the PHP release 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), which means that if you want to move to some other version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is very flexible, you can even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you want to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 support team will assist you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Because all semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script app which requires the software tool in order to function properly. With a couple of clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for your account. As we support a couple of versions of PHP concurrently, you'll have to do this any time you move to a new version, but when you revert back to a version which you've already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be activated. If you have a couple of websites inside the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you'll be able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with several lines of code you are able to define both the PHP release and the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the hosting account as a whole.