Lots of script-driven applications, especially paid cms, encrypt their files so as to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you buy a paid script and you want to set it up in a hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without having it, you will not be able to install the script or in case you somehow manage to do this, it won't work properly as most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a fresh web hosting account and you'd like to take advantage of some paid web application. If you get a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added because the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is available on all web servers that are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, which means that whatever the shared package that you get during the signup process, you can activate it through the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The exact same section enables you to select the PHP release 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 decide to switch to some other version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Since our platform is flexible, you can set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by 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, our 24/7 technical support team shall assist you quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you get a semi-dedicated server package from us, you can employ any script-driven app that needs ionCube Loader as the software tool is installed on all the servers that are part of our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform. In addition, we support multiple releases of PHP, therefore 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 instance, you can activate ionCube for that particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, and in case you switch back to the earlier release of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more experienced 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 whole hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.