IonCube Loader is a software tool, which is necessary to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal usage. Lots of script-driven apps, in particular discussion forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment requirements, you have to ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it is not that difficult to set it up when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment should be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all website hosting plans which we provide, so any time you require it in order to set up and execute some script application which needs it, you can enable it with a click from the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Because you're able to change the PHP release that is active for your account from the same section, you will need to enable the instrument for every new version that you set. If you are more skillful, you will be able to use 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 this particular website only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you're able to manage both new and older script applications for multiple websites in the same account - something that you will not be able to do with a lot of other web hosting service providers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all of the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, which means that you will not experience any kind of problems in case you'd like to install and use a script app that requires the software instrument so as to operate appropriately. Activating it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, so you can proceed with the application set up without any delays. As we use an innovative in-house made platform and we support several versions of PHP at the same time, you will have to activate ionCube any time you move to a version that you have not used before. In addition, you'll have the option to activate ionCube loader and even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by making a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of program code inside it.