Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encode their files so as to make sure 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 obtain a paid script and you intend to install it in a hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without it, you cannot install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do this, it will not operate efficiently as most of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a fresh web hosting account and you wish to use some paid web application. If you acquire a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added because the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each Linux cloud web hosting that we offer and you are able to activate it at any time with only a few clicks, so you can employ script applications that require it. You are able to do that through the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect within a minute, so you are able to go ahead and set up the app that you'd like without delay. The exact same section will allow you to switch the PHP version that is active for your account, as we support a number of versions on our cutting-edge cloud platform. If you move to a version that you've never used to date, you'll need to enable ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder so as to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you get a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you'll be able to take advantage of any script-driven app that needs ionCube Loader due to the fact that the tool is available on all the servers which are part of our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support different releases of PHP, and 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 activate ionCube for this particular version with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so in case you move back to the earlier release of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to choose the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with a few lines of program code.