IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that's necessary to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized usage. Numerous script-driven applications, in particular discussion forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is one of the hosting environment requirements, you have to make sure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it is not that hard to install it if you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

If you get a Linux cloud hosting from us, it will be created on our custom-made cloud platform where ionCube Loader is already present, so you won't have any kind of problems to run any script app which needs the instrument to function properly. Furthermore, we supply several different releases of PHP, therefore in case you change the version, you'll need to activate ionCube once again. Our system remembers the changes you make, which means that in case you go back to the previous version of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be activated. Both the PHP version and the ionCube tool can be managed from the PHP Configuration section of our Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. Each change that you do takes literally just a mouse-click and it'll take effect immediately.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script app which requires this software tool in order to run effectively. With several clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for your account. Because we support a couple of versions of PHP at the same time, you'll need to do this every time you move to a different version, but when you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. In case you have multiple websites inside the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you're 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 as well as the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the hosting account altogether.