IonCube Loader is a software tool, that's necessary to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized usage. A lot of script-driven apps, particularly message boards, cms and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is among the web hosting environment requirements, you should make sure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it is not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all of the web servers which are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, which means that whatever the Linux cloud web hosting that you select during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The same section allows you to choose 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), and if you would like to move to some other version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is rather flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you wish to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 support team will assist you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you obtain a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to employ any kind of script-driven app that requires ionCube Loader since the software tool is available on all the servers which are a part of our modern cloud web hosting platform. In addition, we support different versions 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 instance, you can activate ionCube for that particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, and if you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to pick the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the whole website hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file in a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.