IonCube Loader is a software tool, that's needed to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering or illegal use. Various script-driven applications, in particular online forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you obtain a script and you find that ionCube is one of the hosting environment requirements, you should make sure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it is not that difficult to install it when 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 should be precompiled and all clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux hosting service that we provide and you can enable it at any time with just a couple of clicks, so you will be able to employ script applications which need it. You can do this through the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect within a minute, which means that you are able to proceed and set up the application that you need without delay. The very same section allows you to switch the PHP release which is active for your account, as we support numerous versions on our hi-tech cloud hosting platform. In case you switch to a release that you haven't used so far, you'll need to enable ionCube Loader again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder so as to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to employ any script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader as the tool is installed on all servers that are part of our advanced cloud web hosting platform. In addition, we support several releases 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 instance, you can enable ionCube for that particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, and if you move back to the earlier version of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the entire website hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with several lines of code.