IonCube Loader is an instrument, that is required to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or not authorized usage. A large number of script-driven applications, in particular discussion boards, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the hosting environment requirements, you need to make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it's not that difficult to install it when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server due to the fact that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux cloud hosting that we provide and you will be able to enable it at any time with just a couple of clicks, so you will be able to take advantage of script apps that require it. You'll be able to do this from the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change will take effect within a minute, so you can go ahead and set up the app that you need right away. The exact same section will allow you to switch the PHP version that is active for your account, because we support several versions on our advanced cloud platform. In case you switch to a release that you've never used so far, you will need to enable ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder in order to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you aquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to employ any script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader since the tool is installed on all the servers that are part of our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform. In addition, we support different versions of PHP, so if you switch from PHP 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, for instance, you can activate ionCube for that particular release with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, so if you move back to the earlier version of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to pick the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with several lines of program code.