Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly paid content management systems, encode 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 this, so if you buy a paid script and you wish to install it in a hosting account, an instrument called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without it, you will not be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it won't work appropriately as almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you should make sure that ionCube Loader is present if you get a new hosting account and you would like to work with some paid web app. If you buy a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added since the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each Linux shared hosting that we provide and you will be able to enable it anytime with just a couple of clicks, so you will be able to work with script apps which require it. You'll be able to do that through the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect within a minute, which means that you will be able to proceed and set up the app that you would like right away. The same section allows you to switch the PHP version that is active for your account, as we support multiple versions on our advanced cloud hosting platform. If you switch to a version that you have not used so far, you'll have to enable ionCube Loader again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder so as to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is provided with all of the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we offer, and you will not have any problems in case you would like to install and work with some script app that requires the software tool to function properly. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a single button inside the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, so you'll be able to proceed with the app installation without any delays. As we employ a revolutionary custom-built platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you'll have to activate ionCube every time you switch to a version that you have not used before. Additionally, you have the option to activate ionCube loader or even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of program code within it.