A lot of script-driven applications, especially paid cms, encode their files to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you obtain a paid script and you'd like to install it in a hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without it, you will not be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it won't work effectively because almost all of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a new website hosting account and you'd like to take advantage of some paid web application. If you purchase a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added since the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all of the hosting packages which we provide, so if you need it in order to set up and execute some script application that requires it, you can activate it with a click in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you're able to switch the PHP version that is active for your account in the same section, you'll have to activate the instrument for each new version which you set. When you're 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. In this way you will be able to operate both new and older script apps for multiple sites inside the same account - something that you won't be able to do with lots of other website hosting service providers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you obtain a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to employ any kind of script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader because the tool is available on all the servers that are part of our modern cloud website hosting platform. In addition, we support different releases of PHP, so if you switch 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 version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, so in case you move back to the previous release of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the whole website hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.