IonCube Loader is a tool, that is required to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application designed to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal use. Many script-driven apps, especially discussion forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is on the list of hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it's not that difficult to set it up when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with every single website hosting plan that we provide and you will be able to activate it anytime with only a few clicks, so you'll be able to work with script applications that require it. You will be able to do that from the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect within a minute, which means that you are able to proceed and set up the application that you need without delay. The same section will allow you to change the PHP version which is active for your account, as we support multiple versions on our advanced cloud hosting platform. If you move to a release that you have not used so far, you will need to enable ionCube Loader again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
As all 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 that requires the tool so as to work effectively. With a couple of clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you are able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for your account. Since we support multiple versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll have to do that each time you move to a different version, and if you revert back to a release that you've already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be activated. In case you have multiple sites in the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you can create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of program code you are able to define both the PHP release plus the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the hosting account altogether.