A lot of script-driven applications, particularly paid content management systems, encrypt their files so as to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you get a paid script and you want to install it in a website hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without this, you cannot install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it won't function appropriately because almost all of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a fresh website hosting account and you wish to work with some paid web application. If you get a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added as your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all of the cloud hosting packages that we provide, so any time you require it in order to install and run a script app which needs it, you can enable it with a single click inside the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you'll be able to change the PHP release which is active for your account in the same section, you need to enable the tool for any new version which you set. When you are more experienced, you will be able to employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular website only, without affecting the entire account. In this way you are able to run both new and older script applications for multiple sites within the same account - a thing that you won't be able to do with various other web hosting suppliers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Due to the fact that all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script application which needs the software tool in order to work efficiently. With several clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you will be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for the account. As we support multiple versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to do that any time you switch to a different version, but if you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. In case you have a couple of websites in the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you are able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with several lines of code you'll be able to define both the PHP release and the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.