Lots of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you get a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a web hosting account, an instrument called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without it, you cannot install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do this, it won't work efficiently because most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a fresh web hosting account and you would like to employ some paid web application. If you acquire a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added as the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all web servers which are part of our cloud web hosting platform, so whatever the shared web hosting that you select during the signup process, you will be able to enable it through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The same section will allow you to pick the PHP release 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), and in case you choose to move to another version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Due to the fact that our platform is really flexible, you can even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you'd like to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 support team will help you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Each semi-dedicated server account that is created on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform comes with ionCube Loader support, so you will be able to install any kind of script application which requires the tool. Then use it in order to launch and maintain your online presence. You can enable ionCube from the PHP Configuration section of the Control Panel and it'll take you no more than a couple of clicks to do that. Your change takes effect immediately, so you're able to proceed and set up the needed script inside your account. If you would like change the PHP version that is active for the account, you will have to enable ionCube for the new version as well. Our custom-built platform also allows you to have a different PHP release for each and every domain or subdomain, that is done with a php.ini file in each domain folder. In the same way, you can enable/disable ionCube Loader for each individual site hosted in your semi-dedicated account.