Plenty of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you obtain a paid script and you intend to set it up in a website hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow manage to do that, it will not operate appropriately for the reason that most of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a fresh website hosting account and you'd like to work with some paid web app. If you obtain a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added since the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is available on all the web servers which are a part of our cloud hosting platform, so whatever the Linux cloud package that you get during the signup process, you can enable it through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complex. The same section will allow you to pick the PHP version for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5), so in case you choose to switch to a different version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Since our platform is very flexible, you can even set a different PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you'd like to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team will help you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you'll be able to employ any script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader since the tool comes with all servers that are part of our modern cloud web hosting platform. We also support several releases of PHP, so if you move from PHP 4 to 5.2 or 5.3, for instance, you can enable ionCube for this particular version with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, so in case you switch back to the earlier release of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to pick the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.