IonCube Loader is a software tool, which is needed to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal use. A large number of script-driven applications, particularly online forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is among the hosting environment prerequisites, you need to ensure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it's not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server due to the fact that the PHP environment should be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Hosting
If you obtain a hosting service through our company, it'll be created on our tailor-made cloud hosting platform where ionCube Loader is already installed, so you won't have any kind of problems to manage any script app that requires the tool so as to run appropriately. Furthermore, we provide a few different releases of PHP, therefore in case you switch the version, you'll need to enable ionCube again. Our system remembers the adjustments you make, and when you move back to the previous version of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be activated. The PHP version as well as the ionCube tool can be managed from the PHP Configuration area of our Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. Any adjustment that you make takes literally just a single click and it takes effect without delay.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from us, you can use any script-driven application which requires ionCube Loader as the software tool is installed on all of the servers that are part of our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform. We also support several 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 this particular release with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, and if you move back to the earlier version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a few lines of program code.