IonCube Loader is a software tool, which is needed to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal usage. Various script-driven applications, particularly community forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is among the website hosting environment prerequisites, you need to ensure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it is not that difficult to set it up if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all the shared hosting plans that we offer, so if you require it to install and execute some script app that requires it, you can enable it with a click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. Because you can change the PHP version that is active for your account in the same section, you'll have to enable the tool for every new version which you set. When you're more skillful, you are 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 that particular site only, without affecting the whole account. This way you can manage both new and older script applications for multiple websites inside the same account - a thing that you cannot do with many other website hosting providers on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you aquire a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you'll be able to use any kind of script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader due to the fact that the software tool comes with all the servers that are a part of our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform. We also support multiple versions of PHP, therefore 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 this particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, and in case you move back to the previous release of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to pick 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 inside a domain folder with several lines of code.