A lot of script-driven apps, particularly paid content management systems, encode their files in order to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so, in case you acquire a paid script and you would like to install it in a web hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader has to be present on your 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 properly because most of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a new hosting account and you'd like to use some paid web application. If you acquire a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added as the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all the web servers that are part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore whatever the Linux cloud website hosting that you choose during the signup process, you can activate 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 hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complex. The very same section will allow you to choose the PHP release for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5), which means that if you would like to switch to a different version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Due to the fact that our platform is flexible, you can even set a different PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you want to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 support team shall help you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Because all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script app which requires the software tool in order to function efficiently. With several clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. Because we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll have to do this each time you move to a different version, but if you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be activated. When you have several websites inside the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you will be able to set up a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of code you're able to define both the PHP release plus the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the website hosting account altogether.