IonCube Loader is a software tool, that's necessary to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal use. A large number of script-driven applications, especially community forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you acquire a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the hosting environment requirements, you need to make sure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it's not that hard to install it if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all of the shared website hosting packages that we offer, so if you need it to install and run a script application that requires it, you can enable it with a single click from the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. As you can switch the PHP release which is active for your account from the same section, you will need to enable the instrument for every new version that you set. When you're more experienced, you'll be able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for this particular website only, without affecting the whole account. Thus you are able to manage both new and older script apps for multiple sites within the same account - something that you will not be able to do with many other web hosting service providers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Due to the fact that all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application which requires this software tool so as to function properly. With just a few clicks in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. Because we support a couple of releases of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to do that any time you move to a different release, and if you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. If you have multiple sites in the same account and they require different versions of PHP, you will be able to set up a php.ini file in each domain folder and with several lines of code you are able to define both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the hosting account altogether.