IonCube Loader is a software tool, which is necessary to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application employed to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and not authorized use. Various script-driven apps, in particular community forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you acquire a script and you find that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment prerequisites, you need to make sure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it's not that hard to install it when you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server since the PHP environment should be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.
IonCube in Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux web hosting that we provide and you are able to enable it at any time with just a few clicks, so you can use script apps that require it. You will be able to do this through the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect in a minute, which means that you can go ahead and set up the application that you need right away. The same section will allow you to change the PHP version which is active for your account, because we support a variety of versions on our leading-edge cloud platform. In case you move to a release that you have never used to date, you'll need to activate ionCube Loader again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder so as to set a PHP version different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Each semi-dedicated server account that is set up on our modern cloud web hosting platform comes with ionCube Loader support, and you will be able to set up any script application that needs the software tool. Then use it in order to start and maintain your online presence. You can activate ionCube from the PHP Configuration area of your Control Panel and it'll take you no more than a couple of clicks to do that. Your change takes effect immediately, so you'll be able to proceed and install the needed script in your account. If you'd like to change the PHP version that's active for your account, you'll need to enable ionCube for the new release as well. Our custom-built platform also allows you to have a different PHP version for each domain or subdomain, that is done with a php.ini file in each domain folder. In the same way, you're able to enable/disable ionCube Loader for each website hosted in your semi-dedicated account.