Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you buy a paid script and you would like to install it in a web hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader must be present on your server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow manage to do that, it won't function appropriately as almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a fresh website hosting account and you'd like to use some paid web app. If you purchase a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single shared hosting service that we offer and you are able to enable it anytime with only a few clicks, so you'll be able to use script applications which require it. You are able to do that through the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect in a minute, so you are able to proceed and install the application that you need without delay. The exact same section allows you to change the PHP release which is active for your account, as we support several releases on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform. If you switch to a release that you've never used to date, you'll have to activate ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder in order to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we supply, so you will not encounter any kind of problems if you'd like to install and work with some script app that requires the instrument in order to operate appropriately. Activating it is as simple as clicking a button inside the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, so you are able to move forward with the application set up without any delays. Since we use an avant-garde custom-made platform and we support many different versions of PHP at the same time, you will have to activate ionCube every time you switch to a version that you have not used before. In addition, you'll have the option to activate ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of code inside it.