A lot of script-driven applications, especially paid cms, encode their files so as to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you get a paid script and you intend to install it in a web hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it will not work efficiently since most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you should make sure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a new website hosting account and you wish to use some paid web application. If you get a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added since your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each Linux web hosting plan that we provide and you are able to activate it anytime with only a couple of clicks, so you can take advantage of script applications that need it. You are able to do this from the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to enable or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect within a minute, so you are able to proceed and set up the application that you would like without delay. The exact same section allows you to change the PHP release which is active for your account, because we support numerous releases on our cutting-edge cloud platform. If you switch to a release that you haven't used to date, you'll have to activate ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder in order to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Due to the fact that all semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script application which requires the software tool to function effectively. With just a few clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel you are able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for the account. Because we support multiple releases of PHP at the same time, you'll need to do this every time you switch to a different version, and 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. When you have a couple of sites in the same account and they require different releases of PHP, you're able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with several lines of program code you're able to define both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.