IonCube Loader is an instrument, which is necessary to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application designed to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and / or not authorized use. Various script-driven applications, especially online forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is among the website hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it is not that difficult to install it when you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Shared Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is available with all shared web hosting packages that we supply, so if you require it to set up and execute a script app that requires it, you can activate it with a click from the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Since you'll be able to change the PHP version that is active for your account in the same section, you'll need to enable the tool for each new version that you set. In case you are more skillful, you will be able to employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the whole account. Thus you can run both new and older script apps for multiple sites within the same account - something that you can't do with various other website hosting providers available on the market.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you buy a semi-dedicated server package from us, you can use any script-driven application which needs ionCube Loader as the tool is installed on all servers which are part of our advanced cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support different versions 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 instance, you can activate ionCube for that particular release with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, and if you move back to the previous release of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to choose the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a couple of lines of program code.