IonCube Loader is a software tool, that is needed to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal usage. A great number of script-driven apps, in particular community forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you acquire a script and you find that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment requirements, you need to ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it is not that difficult to install it when you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is available with all of the shared hosting plans that we supply, so any time you require it to set up and run a script app which requires it, you can activate it with a single click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. Because you can switch the PHP version that is active for your account in the same section, you'll need to activate the tool for every new version which you set. If you are more experienced, you can employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for this particular website only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you will be able to run both new and older script applications for multiple sites in the same account - a thing that you will not be able to do with many other web hosting suppliers out there.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you obtain a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you'll be able to use any script-driven app which requires ionCube Loader since the tool is installed on all of the servers which are a part of our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform. We also support several releases 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 version with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, and in case 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 name without altering the settings for the whole website hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.