Lots of script-driven applications, especially paid cms, encode their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you acquire a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it won't function effectively as most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a fresh website hosting account and you would like to employ some paid web app. If you acquire a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added because the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is available on all the web servers that are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, which means that irrespective of the Linux website hosting that you pick during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it through the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The same section allows you to pick the PHP release for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5), and in case you want to switch to another version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. As our platform is flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you want to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team will be able to assist you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we supply, so you will not encounter any kind of problems if you'd like to set up and use a script application that requires the tool to operate properly. Activating it is as easy as clicking a single button in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, so you are able to move forward with the app installation without delay. Due to the fact that we employ an avant-garde in-house made platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you'll need to enable ionCube every time you move to a version that you haven't used before. In addition, you'll have the option to enable 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 inside it.