A lot of script-driven applications, particularly paid content management systems, encrypt their files so as to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you get a paid script and you wish to set it up in a hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do this, it will not function efficiently due to the fact that most of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a fresh web hosting account and you would like to take advantage of some paid web app. If you purchase a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added because the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all of the shared hosting packages which we offer, so every time you need it in order to set up and run a script app that needs it, you can activate it with a click inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Since you're able to switch the PHP version which is active for your account from the same section, you'll need to enable the tool for each new version that you set. In case you are 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 website only, without affecting the whole account. Thus you'll be able to run both new and older script apps for multiple websites in the same account - something that you will not be able to do with various other web hosting suppliers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is available with all semi-dedicated service that we provide, so you will not encounter any problems in case you'd like to install and use some script application that requires the software instrument in order to operate appropriately. Activating it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in less than a minute, which means that you are able to move forward with the app installation without any delays. Since we use a hi-tech tailor-made platform and we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll have to enable ionCube every time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. In addition, you'll have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of code within it.