Plenty of script-driven apps, particularly paid content management systems, encrypt their files so as to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you get a paid script and you intend to install it in a website hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without this, you cannot install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it will not work properly because 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 web hosting account and you'd like to work with some paid web app. If you acquire a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all web servers which are part of our cloud hosting platform, therefore regardless of the cloud web hosting plan that you get during the signup process, you will be able to activate it through the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The very same section allows you to select the PHP release for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5), and in case you would like to move to a different version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Due to the fact that our platform is very flexible, you can set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you would like to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 technical support team will help you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is provided with all of the semi-dedicated hosting plans that we supply, and you will not have any kind of problems if you'd like to set up and work with a script app that requires the software instrument so as to function properly. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, which means that you are able to proceed with the app installation without any delays. Because we use a hi-tech tailor-made platform and we support several versions of PHP at the same time, you'll have to enable ionCube any time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. Additionally, you have the option to enable ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of code inside it.