IonCube Loader is a software instrument, which is needed to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering or not authorized use. A large number of script-driven apps, especially forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is among the web hosting environment prerequisites, you have to ensure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it is not that difficult to set it up if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server since the PHP environment should be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all of the web servers that are part of our cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the shared hosting package that you select during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first web hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The very 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), so in case you choose to switch to another version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. As our platform is rather flexible, you may even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube 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 tech support team will be able to help you within minutes.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to use any script-driven app that requires ionCube Loader due to the fact that the software tool is available on all servers which are part of our modern cloud web hosting platform. In addition, we support multiple releases of PHP, therefore if you switch 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 example, you can activate ionCube for that particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, and if you switch back to the earlier version of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with several lines of program code.