A lot of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encode their files so as to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you obtain a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader has to be present on your 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 function efficiently since most of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a new website hosting account and you want to work with some paid web application. If you buy a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added as your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single shared website hosting that we provide and you are able to enable it anytime with only a few clicks, so you will be able to employ script applications that require it. You'll be able to do this from the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect within a minute, so you can proceed and set up the app that you'd like without delay. The exact same section will allow you to change the PHP release that's active for your account, as we support numerous versions on our hi-tech cloud platform. In case you switch to a version that you've never used so far, you will have to activate ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a specific 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

IonCube Loader is provided with all of the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, which means that you will not experience any problems in case you'd like to install and work with a script application which requires the software tool in order to function properly. Enabling it is as easy as clicking a single button inside the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, therefore you will be able to move forward with the app installation without any delays. Due to the fact that we use a hi-tech custom-made platform and we support many different versions of PHP at the same time, you will need to enable ionCube every time you move to a version that you haven't used before. In addition, you'll have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP release 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 a couple of lines of program code inside it.