Plenty of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encode their files to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you buy a paid script and you want to set it up in a web hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without this, you cannot install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it won't work appropriately for the reason that most of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a new web hosting account and you'd like to employ some paid web application. If you obtain a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added as the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is available on all the web servers which are a part of our cloud hosting platform, which means that regardless of the Linux shared hosting that you choose during the signup process, you will be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complicated. The same section will allow you to select 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), and in case you would like to move to a different version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is very flexible, you can set a different PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you would like to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team shall help you in no time.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you obtain a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to use any script-driven application that needs ionCube Loader for the reason that the software tool is available on all of the servers which are a part of our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple releases of PHP, and 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 enable ionCube for this particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, so if you switch back to the previous release of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also offer the option to pick the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a few lines of program code.