Plenty of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encode their files to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you buy a paid script and you would like to set it up in a hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without this, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow manage to do this, it won't work effectively as almost all of the script code will be encoded to a point where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a new hosting account and you would like to use some paid web application. If you get a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added because the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Hosting
IonCube Loader is a part of all web servers that are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore irrespective of the Linux hosting plan that you pick during the signup process, you can enable it through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The same section enables you to choose the PHP version for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2), which means that if you choose to move to a different version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is very flexible, you may even set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you want to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 support team shall assist you in no time.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
As all semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script application which requires the software tool to work effectively. With just a few clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. As we support multiple releases of PHP simultaneously, you will need to do that each and every time you move to a different release, and when you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be activated. If you have multiple websites in the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you are able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with a couple of lines of program code you'll be able to define both the PHP release as well as the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the hosting account altogether.