IonCube Loader is a tool, that is necessary to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal usage. A large number of script-driven apps, particularly discussion boards, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is among the hosting environment requirements, you need to ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it's not that difficult to install it when 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 shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all the shared hosting plans which we provide, so every time you require it to install and run a script application that needs it, you can activate it with a click in the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Since you'll be able to switch the PHP version that is active for your account in the same section, you need to activate the tool for every new version that you set. In case you are more experienced, you will be able to employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you're able to operate both new and older script applications for multiple websites within the same account - something that you can't do with many other website hosting providers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you aquire a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you'll be able to employ any kind of script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader since the software tool is available on all the servers which are part of our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform. In addition, we support various releases of PHP, so if you move from PHP 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, for example, you can enable ionCube for that particular release with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, so in case you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with a few lines of code.