Lots of script-driven applications, especially paid content management systems, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you purchase a paid script and you would like to install it in a website hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without this, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do that, it will not function properly for the reason that most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a fresh hosting account and you would like to employ some paid web application. If you purchase a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added because your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all the cloud hosting packages which we supply, so every time you need it in order to install and run some script app which needs it, you can enable it with a click in the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. As you'll be able to switch the PHP release which is active for your account from the same section, you will need to activate the instrument for each new version that you set. When you are more experienced, you'll be able to take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you will be able to manage both new and older script applications for multiple websites in the same account - a thing that you can't do with a lot of other website hosting suppliers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is available with all the semi-dedicated servers that we supply, so you will not have any problems in case you would like to set up and work with some script app that requires the software tool in order to function appropriately. Activating it is as easy as clicking a button in the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, which means that you will be able to proceed with the application set up without delay. For the reason that we use an avant-garde tailor-made platform and we support a number of versions of PHP at the same time, you will need to activate ionCube every time you move to a version that you have not used before. Additionally, you have the option to activate ionCube loader or even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of code within it.