A lot of script-driven applications, especially paid content management systems, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you get a paid script and you want to set it up in a website hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without it, you will not be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it will not work properly due to the fact that most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a fresh hosting account and you'd like to work with some paid web app. If you purchase a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all the web servers which are part of our cloud website hosting platform, so irrespective of the shared website hosting plan that you choose during the signup process, you will be able to activate it through your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first web hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The same section enables you to select the PHP release 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 if you decide to move to another version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is very flexible, you can even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you want to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team shall assist you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you can use any kind of script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader as the tool is installed on all of the servers which are a part of our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform. We also support several versions of PHP, so 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 system will remember your decision, and in case you move back to the earlier release of PHP, the instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to select the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the entire website hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with a couple of lines of program code.