IonCube Loader is a tool, which is needed to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering or illegal usage. Plenty of script-driven apps, especially community forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it is not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all the hosting packages which we supply, so if you need it in order to set up and execute a script application which requires it, you can activate it with a click from the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Because you'll be able to switch the PHP release that is active for your account in the same section, you'll need to enable the tool for any new version which you set. When you are more experienced, you can 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 this particular website only, without affecting the entire account. In this way you will be able to manage both new and older script apps for multiple sites in the same account - a thing that you won't be able to do with a lot of other web hosting suppliers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Every single semi-dedicated server account which is created on our modern cloud website hosting platform features ionCube Loader support, which means that you'll be able to install any kind of script app which needs the software tool. Then use it to start and maintain your web presence. You can activate ionCube through the PHP Configuration area of the Control Panel and it will take you only a couple of clicks to do this. Your change takes effect immediately, so you'll be able to proceed and install the necessary script inside your account. If you decide to switch the PHP version that is active for the account, you will need to enable ionCube for the new version as well. Our custom platform also allows you to have a different PHP release for each domain or subdomain, which is done with a php.ini file in each domain folder. In the same way, you are able to enable/disable ionCube Loader for each website hosted in your semi-dedicated account.