In order to avoid the reverse engineering of script applications, a lot of developers encode their program code with tools like ionCube PHP Encoder to make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid apps in particular, since anyone could possibly use and change the unencrypted code without having to pay the needed license fees. If you acquire web software encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without any problems as long as a software instrument called ionCube Loader is installed on the web hosting server. This loader makes it possible to execute encoded files and you will often find it among the prerequisites for a given script application to be installed. Due to the fact that the encoded files are already precompiled, they are generally executed faster and this can increase the overall speed of your site.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all web servers which are a part of our cloud hosting platform, which means that regardless of the website hosting that you get during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complex. The very same section will allow 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), which means that in case you choose to switch to another version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Due to the fact that our platform is very flexible, you can set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you wish to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 technical support team shall assist you within minutes.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is available with all the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, and you won't have any kind of problems if you would like to install and use a script app which requires the instrument to function appropriately. Enabling it is as easy as clicking a single button inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in less than a minute, which means that you can move forward with the application installation without any delays. For the reason that we use a hi-tech custom platform and we support a number of versions of PHP at the same time, you'll have to enable ionCube every time you move to a version that you haven't used before. In addition, you'll have the option to enable ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of code within it.