IonCube Loader is a tool, that's necessary to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering or illegal use. A great number of script-driven applications, in particular community forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you acquire a script and you notice that ionCube is among the web hosting environment requirements, you have to ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument 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 due to the fact that the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all the web servers which are a part of our cloud hosting platform, so irrespective of the hosting package that you select during the signup process, you can activate it from your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The exact same section allows you to choose the PHP release 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 in case you want to move to another version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Due to the fact that our platform is flexible, you may even set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you would like to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team will be able to help you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Each and every semi-dedicated server account that is set up on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform features ionCube Loader support, and you will be able to install any kind of script application that requires the software tool. Then use it to launch and maintain your web presence. You can activate ionCube from the PHP Configuration area of your Control Panel and it'll take you only a few clicks to do that. Your change will take effect right away, so you'll be able to go ahead and set up the necessary script inside your account. If you decide to switch the PHP version that's active for the account, you will have to activate ionCube for the new release as well. Our tailor-made platform also allows you to have a different PHP version for each and every domain or subdomain, which is done with a php.ini file in each domain folder. In the same way, you'll be able to enable/disable ionCube Loader for each website hosted in your semi-dedicated account.