Plenty of script-driven applications, especially paid content management systems, encode their files in order to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so, in case you buy a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without it, you cannot install the script or in case you somehow manage to do that, it will not operate properly due to the fact that most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is present if you get a new web hosting account and you want to work with some paid web app. If you obtain a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added because your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Shared Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is present on all of the web servers that are part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore whatever the shared web hosting that you get during the signup process, you will be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The same section will allow 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 if you choose to switch to another version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is rather flexible, you can set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you would like to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 technical support team will assist you quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
IonCube Loader is available with all the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, so you will not encounter any kind of problems in case you would like to set up and work with a script app which requires the software tool to function properly. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, which means that you'll be able to proceed with the app installation without delay. Due to the fact that we use a hi-tech custom-built platform and we support many different versions of PHP at the same time, you'll need to activate ionCube any time you switch to a version that you have not used before. In addition, you'll have the option to activate ionCube loader or even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of program code within it.