IonCube Loader is a software instrument, which is needed to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app employed to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal usage. A great number of script-driven applications, especially forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is among the website hosting environment requirements, you need to make sure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it is 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 because the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.
IonCube in Cloud Hosting
IonCube Loader comes with all cloud hosting plans which we supply, so any time you require it in order to install and run a script app which needs it, you can activate it with a single click in the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. As you are able to change the PHP version that is active for your account from the same section, you'll need to enable the instrument for each new version which you set. If you're more experienced, you can employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular website only, without affecting the entire account. This way you will be able to manage both new and older script apps for multiple websites in the same account - a thing that you cannot do with numerous other web hosting suppliers available on the market.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
As all semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script app which requires this software tool in order to work effectively. With a couple of clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel you are able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. As we support multiple releases of PHP concurrently, you will need to do that any time you switch to a new version, but if you revert back to a release that you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. When you have a couple of sites in the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you can set up a php.ini file in each and every domain folder and with several lines of code you are able to define both the PHP release and the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the hosting account as a whole.