IonCube Loader is an instrument, that's necessary to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app employed to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and / or not authorized usage. A large number of script-driven apps, in particular online forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is among the website hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it is not that hard to install it when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server as the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all the web servers that are part of our cloud web hosting platform, therefore whatever the shared website hosting service that you get during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complex. The same section allows you to choose the PHP version 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), which means that in case you want to move to another version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Due to the fact that our platform is very flexible, you may 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 would like to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team shall help you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you buy a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to employ any script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader for the reason that the software tool is available on all the servers that are a part of our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform. In addition, we support multiple versions of PHP, so if you move 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 example, you can enable ionCube for that particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, so in case you switch back to the earlier version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to pick the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with several lines of program code.