A lot of script-driven apps, particularly paid content management systems, encrypt their files in order to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you get a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader must be present on your server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do this, it won't function appropriately due to the fact that most of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a fresh website hosting account and you would like to work with some paid web app. If you purchase a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all web servers which are part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore whatever the Linux web hosting that you select during the signup process, you will be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The exact 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), and in case you choose to switch to another version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. As our platform is quite flexible, you can set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you would like to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 technical support team will be able to assist you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

As all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script app which requires the tool in order to run efficiently. With a couple of clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel you will be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for the account. Since we support a couple of releases of PHP at the same time, you will need to do this any time you move to a new version, but when you revert back to a version which you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. In case you have multiple sites in the same account and they require different versions of PHP, you are able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with several lines of code you will be able to define both the PHP release and the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the web hosting account altogether.