IonCube Loader is a software tool, that is required to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application designed to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized use. A number of script-driven applications, in particular discussion boards, cms and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is among the web hosting environment prerequisites, you have to make sure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it is not that hard to install it when you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server since the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single shared web hosting that we offer and you'll be able to activate it at any time with just a couple of clicks, so you will be able to take advantage of script applications that need it. You can do that through the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect within a minute, which means that you will be able to go ahead and install the app that you would like without delay. The exact same section will allow you to switch the PHP release that is active for your account, as we support several versions on our hi-tech cloud platform. If you switch to a version that you haven't used to date, you'll need to activate ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Since all of 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 app which needs the tool so as to function efficiently. With just a few clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Because we support multiple releases of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to do this every time you switch to a new release, and when you revert back to a version that you've 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 releases of PHP, you will be able to set up a php.ini file in each and every 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.