IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that is necessary to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application designed to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized use. Numerous script-driven apps, in particular community forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you acquire a script and you find that ionCube is among the website hosting environment prerequisites, you have to make sure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it's not that difficult to set it up if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server as the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all web servers that are part of our cloud hosting platform, therefore regardless of the cloud web hosting that you choose during the signup process, you will be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-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 complicated. The same section enables you to pick the PHP release for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2), and if you choose to switch to a different version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is quite flexible, you may even set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you would like to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 technical support team will be able to assist you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script app which needs the software tool to run properly. With just a few clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. As we support multiple versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll have to do this every time you switch to a different version, but when you revert back to a release which you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. In case you have a couple of websites in the same account and they require different releases of PHP, you will be able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with several lines of program code you can define both the PHP release and the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the hosting account altogether.