Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encode their files in order to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you get a paid script and you intend to install it in a web hosting account, a tool known as ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without it, you cannot install the script or in case you somehow manage to do that, it won't operate appropriately since most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a new website hosting account and you'd like to work with some paid web application. If you get a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added as your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all web servers that are part of our cloud website hosting platform, so regardless of the shared hosting plan that you get during the signup process, you will be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complex. The same section enables you to select 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 would like to move to another version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. As our platform is quite flexible, you can even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you need to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team will help you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to use any kind of script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader due to the fact that the tool comes with all servers that are part of our modern cloud hosting platform. We also support different versions of PHP, which means that if you move 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 only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, and if you move back to the earlier release of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer 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 entire web hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a few lines of code.