IonCube Loader is an instrument, that is needed to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application employed to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or not authorized usage. A lot of script-driven apps, especially forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the web hosting environment requirements, you have to ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it is not that hard to set it up when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Web Hosting

If you obtain a web hosting through us, it'll be created on our in-house made cloud hosting platform where ionCube Loader is already set up, so you won't have any problems to run any script app that requires the tool in order to function properly. We also offer you several different releases of PHP, which means that if you switch the version, you will need to enable ionCube once again. Our system remembers the adjustments you make, which means that when you move back to the previous release of PHP which was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be turned on. The PHP version and the ionCube tool can be managed from the PHP Configuration area of our Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. Every adjustment that you make takes literally just a single click and it'll take effect without delay.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you can employ any script-driven application that needs ionCube Loader due to the fact that the software tool is installed on all the servers which are a part of our advanced cloud hosting platform. In addition, we support different versions of PHP, so 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 instance, you can activate ionCube for this particular version with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, and in case you switch back to the earlier version of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with a few lines of code.