IonCube Loader is an instrument, which is needed to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and / or not authorized use. A number of script-driven applications, especially forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you acquire a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment prerequisites, you need to ensure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it's not that difficult to set it up when you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server as the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all the shared website hosting plans which we offer, so when you need it to set up and execute a script application which requires it, you can activate it with a single click from the Advanced section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Because you'll be able to change the PHP version that is active for your account from the same section, you will need to enable the tool for every new version that you set. If you're more skillful, you can take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for that particular website only, without affecting the entire account. In this way you are able to run both new and older script applications for multiple sites inside the same account - something that you will not be able to do with various other hosting service providers on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Each and every semi-dedicated server account that's set up on our modern cloud web hosting platform features ionCube Loader support, and you'll be able to set up any script app that requires the software tool. Then use it to launch and maintain your world wide web presence. You can enable ionCube from the PHP Configuration area of your Control Panel and it'll take you no more than a couple of clicks to do this. The change will take effect immediately, so you can proceed and install the needed script inside your account. If you'd like to change the PHP version which is active for the account, you will need to enable ionCube for the new release too. Our in-house built platform also allows you to have a different PHP release for each and every domain or subdomain, that is done with a php.ini file in each domain folder. In the same way, you can enable/disable ionCube Loader for each individual site hosted in your semi-dedicated account.