IonCube Loader is a tool, which is required to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized use. Numerous script-driven applications, particularly forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you buy a script and you find that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it's not that difficult to set it up when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server as the PHP environment should be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all of the web servers that are part of our cloud website hosting platform, which means that whatever the Linux cloud web 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 easy as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complex. 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), which means that in case you would like to switch to some other version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Since our platform is quite flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you wish to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 technical support team will be able to assist you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to use any kind of script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader because the tool is available on all servers which are a part of our advanced cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support various releases of PHP, and if you move 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 enable ionCube for that particular release with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, and in case you move back to the previous release of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the whole web hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file in a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.