IonCube Loader is an instrument, which is needed to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized use. A large number of script-driven applications, particularly community forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you get a script and you find that ionCube is among the web hosting environment prerequisites, you have to ensure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it's not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server as the PHP environment should be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all of the hosting packages that we offer, so if you need it in order to install and execute a script application which needs it, you can enable it with a single click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. As you can change the PHP release that is active for your account in the same section, you'll have to activate the instrument for every new version which you set. In case you are more experienced, you can use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular website only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you'll be able to operate both new and older script applications for multiple sites inside the same account - a thing that you won't be able to do with lots of other hosting service providers on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you get a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you can use any kind of script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader because the software tool comes with all of the servers which are a part of our modern cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support various versions of PHP, which means that 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 that particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, so in case you switch back to the previous release of PHP, the instrument 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 specific domain without altering the settings for the entire website hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file inside a domain folder with several lines of program code.