IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that's required to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and not authorized usage. Plenty of script-driven apps, especially discussion forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is on the list of web hosting environment requirements, you have to make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it is not that difficult to set it up when you have your own server, it is close to 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 shall be affected.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every shared service that we offer and you're able to enable it anytime with only a few clicks, so you'll be able to take advantage of script apps that need it. You're able to do this through the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a button. The change will take effect in a minute, therefore you're able to proceed and install the app that you would like right away. The same section will allow you to change the PHP version that's active for your account, because we support a number of releases on our advanced cloud platform. In case you switch to a version that you have never used to date, you'll have to enable ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder so as to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
As all semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application that needs the tool in order to work efficiently. With several clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for your account. Since we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to do that any time you move to a different version, and when you revert back to a release that you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. If you have multiple websites inside the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you are able to set up a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of program code you will be able to define both the PHP version plus the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.