Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encode their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you obtain a paid script and you'd like to install it in a web hosting account, a tool known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without this, you cannot install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it won't operate appropriately for the reason that most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a new web hosting account and you wish to take advantage of some paid web application. If you buy a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every shared website hosting that we offer and you can activate it at any time with just a few clicks, so you'll be able to work with script applications that need it. You will be able to do this from the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect within a minute, so you're able to go ahead and install the app that you would like right away. The very same section allows you to change the PHP version that's active for your account, as we support multiple versions on our cutting-edge cloud platform. If you switch to a version that you have not used so far, you'll have to enable ionCube Loader again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder in order to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Each and every semi-dedicated server account that is created on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform includes ionCube Loader support, and you will be able to install any kind of script application which needs the tool. Then employ it to launch and maintain your web presence. You can enable ionCube through the PHP Configuration section of the Control Panel and it'll take you only a few clicks to do this. The change will take effect right away, so you are able to proceed and set up the needed script in your account. If you'd like to switch the PHP version that's active for the account, you need to activate ionCube for the new release too. Our in-house built platform also allows you to have a different PHP release for each domain or subdomain, which is done with a php.ini file in each domain folder. In the same way, you can enable/disable ionCube Loader for each individual website hosted in your semi-dedicated account.