Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you buy a paid script and you wish to set it up in a website hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without this, you will not be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do that, it won't function appropriately because almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a fresh web hosting account and you would like to take advantage of some paid web app. If you purchase a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added as the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all the web servers that are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, so irrespective of the shared hosting plan that you get during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complicated. The exact same section allows you to choose 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), which means that if you want to switch to some other version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Since our platform is very flexible, you may even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you need to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 support team shall assist you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Each and every semi-dedicated server account that's created on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform includes ionCube Loader support, which means that you can install any kind of script application that requires the software tool. Then use it in order to launch and maintain your internet presence. You can activate ionCube from the PHP Configuration area of your Control Panel and it will take you only a few clicks to do this. Your change will take effect right away, so you will be able to proceed and install the needed script in your account. If you would like change the PHP version which is active for your account, you need to activate ionCube for the new version too. Our custom platform also allows you to have a different PHP version for each and every domain or subdomain, which is done with a php.ini file in every domain folder. In the same way, you can enable/disable ionCube Loader for each website hosted in your semi-dedicated account.