IonCube Loader is a tool, which is needed to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized usage. A large number of script-driven apps, in particular discussion forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is among the hosting environment requirements, you should ensure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it is 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 since the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server will be affected.
IonCube in Shared Website Hosting
When you purchase a Linux shared website hosting from us, it will be set up on our tailor-made cloud platform where ionCube Loader is already present, so you will not have any problems to run any script app that needs the tool to function properly. Furthermore, we supply several different versions of PHP, which means that if you switch the version, you'll have to enable ionCube once again. Our system remembers the adjustments you make, so if you move back to the earlier release of PHP which was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be activated. The PHP version as well as the ionCube instrument can be managed through the PHP Configuration part of our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Any adjustment that you make takes literally just a click and it will take effect instantly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Due to the fact that all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application that needs the software tool in order to work effectively. With several clicks in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you will be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. Because we support a couple of releases of PHP simultaneously, you will need to do this each time you move to a new version, but when you revert back to a version which you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. When you have several sites in the same account and they require different versions of PHP, you are able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of program code you can define both the PHP version and the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.