IonCube Loader is a software tool, that's necessary to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering or not authorized usage. A large number of script-driven apps, especially message boards, cms and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you buy a script and you find that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment prerequisites, you should make sure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it's not that difficult to install it if you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all of the web servers that are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, which means that whatever the Linux shared web hosting package that you get during the signup process, you can activate it through your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first web hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The very same section allows you to choose 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 have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Due to the fact that our platform is very flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you wish 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

Due to the fact that all semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script application which needs this tool in order to work effectively. With just a few clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you will be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for the account. Because we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you will have to do this each and every time you switch to a new version, and when you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. When you have several websites in the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you can create a php.ini file in each and every domain folder and with a couple of lines of program code you'll be able to define both the PHP release as well as the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the website hosting account altogether.