IonCube Loader is a tool, that's necessary to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering or not authorized usage. A lot of script-driven apps, especially online forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you acquire a script and you notice that ionCube is among the website hosting environment requirements, you need to make sure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it's not that difficult to install it if you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every cloud website hosting service that we offer and you will be able to activate it at any time with only a couple of clicks, so you'll be able to use script applications which need it. You can do that from the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a button. The change will take effect within a minute, so you can proceed and set up the app that you'd like right away. The same section will allow you to switch the PHP release that is active for your account, because we support a variety of releases on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform. If you move to a version that you've never used to date, you will need to activate ionCube Loader again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Each and every semi-dedicated server account that's set up on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform features ionCube Loader support, so you'll be able to set up any kind of script app which needs the tool. Then employ it in order to launch and maintain your world wide web presence. You can enable ionCube through the PHP Configuration section of your Control Panel and it will take you no more than a few clicks to do this. The change will take effect without delay, which means that you can proceed and set up the necessary script inside your account. If you'd like to change the PHP version that is active for the account, you will have to enable ionCube for the new release as well. Our in-house 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 can enable/disable ionCube Loader for each website hosted in your semi-dedicated account.