Lots of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you get a paid script and you want to install it in a website hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without having it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do this, it won't function properly due to the fact that almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a new web hosting account and you wish to use some paid web application. If you buy a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Shared Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is a part of all web servers which are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, therefore regardless of the shared website hosting that you select during the signup process, you can enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The very same section will allow you to pick 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 choose to move to another version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is very flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you need to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team shall assist you very quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
Because all the semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script application that requires the software tool to run efficiently. With several clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel you will be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. Since we support several releases of PHP at the same time, you'll need to do that any time you move to a new version, but if you revert back to a release which you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. If you have several websites inside the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you're able to create a php.ini file in each and every domain folder and with several lines of program code you can define both the PHP release plus the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.