IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that is required to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal usage. A number of script-driven applications, especially community forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you get a script and you notice that ionCube is among the hosting environment requirements, you should make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it's not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every Linux cloud website hosting that we supply and you are able to enable it at any time with just a couple of clicks, so you'll be able to employ script applications that need it. You will be able to do that through the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect in a minute, therefore you'll be able to proceed and install the application that you would like without delay. The very same section will allow you to switch the PHP release that is active for your account, because we support numerous releases on our cutting-edge cloud platform. If you move to a version that you've never used to date, you will need to enable ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you get a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you can take advantage of any kind of script-driven app that requires ionCube Loader for the reason that the software tool comes with all servers which are part of our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform. We also support multiple releases of PHP, so 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 enable ionCube for this particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so if you move back to the earlier version of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with a few lines of program code.