IonCube Loader is a software tool, that's necessary to run files which are encrypted 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 unauthorized usage. A number of script-driven apps, especially community forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is on the list of website hosting environment requirements, you have to make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it is not that difficult to set it up if you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server as 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 on all the web servers that are part of our cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the shared web hosting that you pick during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it through your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complex. The same section will allow 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), which means that if you choose to move to another version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is quite flexible, you can set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you need to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team will be able to help you within minutes.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
IonCube Loader is available with all semi-dedicated servers that we offer, which means that you will not experience any problems in case you would like to set up and work with a script application which requires the tool to function properly. Activating it is as simple as clicking a single button inside the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in less than a minute, therefore you can proceed with the app installation without any delays. Since we employ a cutting-edge custom-made platform and we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to activate ionCube every time you move to a version that you have not used before. Additionally, you have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of program code inside it.