Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly paid content management systems, encrypt their files in order to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an app named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you obtain a paid script and you wish to set it up in a website hosting account, an instrument called ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without it, you will not be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do this, it won't work properly as most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a fresh website hosting account and you want to employ some paid web app. If you get a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added as the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is present on all the web servers which are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, so irrespective of the Linux website hosting that you get during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The very same section allows you to pick the PHP version 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), so if you would like to move to some other version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is rather flexible, you can even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you need to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team shall help you quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
As all semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script application that requires this tool in order to run effectively. With just a few clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel you will be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Since we support several versions of PHP concurrently, you'll need to do that every time you move to a different release, and if you revert back to a release that you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. When you have multiple sites in the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you will be able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of code you will be able to define both the PHP release and the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the website hosting account altogether.