A lot of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files in order to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you acquire a paid script and you'd like to install it in a web hosting account, a tool known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without this, you will not be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it won't work properly because most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a new web hosting account and you would like to work with some paid web app. If you acquire a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added because the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all the cloud hosting plans that we offer, so any time you need it to install and run some script app which requires it, you can enable it with a click in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Because you are able to change the PHP version which is active for your account in the same section, you'll need to activate the instrument for any new version which you set. In case you are more skillful, you'll be able to employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you will be able to operate both new and older script applications for multiple sites within the same account - something that you cannot do with a lot of other website hosting service providers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you buy a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you'll be able to use any script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader for the reason that the tool comes with all servers which are part of our advanced cloud website hosting platform. We also support different versions of PHP, therefore if you move 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 this particular version with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, and in case you switch 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 choose the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with several lines of code.