Plenty of script-driven apps, particularly paid content management systems, encode their files to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you acquire a paid script and you'd like to install it in a hosting account, a tool known as ionCube Loader must be present on your server. Without it, you can't install the script or if you somehow find a way to do this, it will not operate effectively since most of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is present if you get a new web hosting account and you would like to use some paid web application. If you obtain a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added as the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each Linux cloud website hosting service that we provide and you will be able to enable it at any time with just a few clicks, so you can employ script apps that need it. You'll be able to do that through the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to enable or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect in a minute, so you can proceed and set up the app that you would like right away. The exact same section will allow you to switch the PHP version which is active for your account, as we support numerous releases on our hi-tech cloud platform. In case you move to a version that you haven't used so far, you will need to activate ionCube Loader again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder so as to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you buy a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you'll be able to use any kind of script-driven app that needs ionCube Loader because the tool is installed on all of the servers which are a part of our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple versions of PHP, therefore 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 enable ionCube for that particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, so if you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to select the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the whole website hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with several lines of code.