IonCube Loader is a tool, which is needed to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app employed to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and / or not authorized usage. A number of script-driven applications, in particular message boards, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you buy a script and you find that ionCube is one of the web hosting environment prerequisites, you need to ensure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it is not that difficult to set it up if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment should be precompiled and all clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all shared website hosting packages which we offer, so any time you need it in order to set up and run a script application that requires it, you can activate it with a click in the Advanced section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you are able to switch the PHP version that is active for your account from the same section, you need to activate the tool for each new version which you set. In case you are more experienced, you will be able to use 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 this particular website only, without affecting the entire account. This way you will be able to run both new and older script applications for multiple websites in the same account - something that you won't be able to do with many other web hosting service providers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to take advantage of any kind of script-driven application that needs ionCube Loader for the reason that the tool comes with all the servers which are part of our revolutionary cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support various releases of PHP, which means that if you switch 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 this particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, so in case you move back to the earlier version 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 specific domain name without altering the settings for the whole web hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with several lines of program code.