A lot of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files in order to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so, in case you get a paid script and you wish to install it in a web hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow manage to do that, it will not function appropriately since most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a fresh hosting account and you would like to employ some paid web application. If you obtain a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added because the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all shared website hosting plans which we provide, so if you require it to install and run some script application that requires it, you can enable it with a click from the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. As you're able to switch the PHP release which is active for your account from the same section, you will have to enable the tool for any new version that you set. If you're more experienced, you will be able to take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you'll be able to manage both new and older script apps for multiple sites within the same account - a thing that you cannot do with lots of other hosting service providers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Every single semi-dedicated server account that's created on our modern cloud website hosting platform comes with ionCube Loader support, so you can set up any script app that needs the tool. Then use it in order to launch and maintain your internet presence. You can enable ionCube from the PHP Configuration area of the Control Panel and it will take you only a couple of clicks to do that. Your change will take effect immediately, which means that you'll be able to go ahead and set up the necessary script inside your account. If you would like change the PHP version that is active for the account, you should activate ionCube for the new release as well. Our custom-built platform also allows you to have a different PHP release for each domain or subdomain, that is done with a php.ini file in each domain folder. In the same way, you will be able to enable/disable ionCube Loader for each site hosted in your semi-dedicated account.