Plenty of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you get a paid script and you would like to set it up in a website hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without having it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do that, it won't operate appropriately for the reason that most of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is present if you get a fresh website hosting account and you would like to work with some paid web app. If you get a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added since the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux shared hosting that we provide and you will be able to enable it anytime with just a couple of clicks, so you will be able to employ script apps that require it. You'll be able to do this through the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a button. The change will take effect within a minute, which means that you're able to go ahead and set up the app that you would like without delay. The very same section will allow you to change the PHP release that's active for your account, because we support a number of releases on our advanced cloud platform. In case you move to a version that you haven't used so far, you'll have to activate ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is provided with all the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we provide, which means that you won't encounter any problems if you would like to install and work with a script app which requires the software tool in order to operate properly. Enabling it is as easy as clicking a single button inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in a minute, which means that you can proceed with the application set up without delay. For the reason that we employ a revolutionary in-house made platform and we support many different versions of PHP simultaneously, you will need to activate ionCube any time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. You will also have the option to activate ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of code in it.