IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that is needed to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal usage. Plenty of script-driven applications, especially message boards, cms and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you get a script and you find that ionCube is one of the hosting environment requirements, you have to make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it is not that hard to install it when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server as the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all the cloud hosting plans which we supply, so if you require it in order to set up and run some script application which requires it, you can enable it with a click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. As you can change the PHP release that's active for your account in the same section, you will have to activate the instrument for any new version that you set. When you are more skillful, you are able to take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular website only, without affecting the entire account. This way you will be able to operate both new and older script apps for multiple sites inside the same account - something that you cannot do with a lot of other web hosting suppliers on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from us, you can take advantage of any kind of script-driven app that requires ionCube Loader as the tool is installed on all the servers which are a part of our revolutionary cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple releases 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 that particular version with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, so in case you move back to the previous release of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the entire website hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file in a domain folder with a couple of lines of program code.