IonCube Loader is an instrument, which is required to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized use. A lot of script-driven applications, in particular discussion forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you acquire a script and you find that ionCube is among the hosting environment prerequisites, you need to ensure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it's not that difficult to install it if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server because the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all shared web hosting plans which we offer, so if you require it in order to set up and execute some script application that needs it, you can activate it with a single click inside the Advanced section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Since you are able to switch the PHP release that's active for your account in the same section, you will need to enable the tool for each new version that you set. If you're more skillful, you can take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for this particular website only, without affecting the whole account. This way you can operate both new and older script applications for multiple websites in the same account - something that you will not be able to do with various other web hosting suppliers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script application which requires this tool so as to run properly. With several clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you are able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for your account. Because we support several releases of PHP at the same time, you will need to do this each and every time you move to a different version, and when you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be activated. When you have several websites in the same account and they require different releases of PHP, you'll be able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with a couple of 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 website hosting account as a whole.