Lots of script-driven applications, particularly paid content management systems, encode their files to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you purchase a paid script and you would like to install it in a website hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without having it, you can't install the script or if you somehow find a way to do this, it will not operate properly for the reason that almost all of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a new hosting account and you wish to work with some paid web app. If you get a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added since the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is installed on all web servers which are part of our cloud hosting platform, so irrespective of the web hosting that you get during the signup process, you can enable it through your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complex. The same section will allow you to select the PHP release 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 choose to switch to a different version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Since our platform is really flexible, you can set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you would like to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will be able to assist you very quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you buy a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you can employ any script-driven app that requires ionCube Loader due to the fact that the software tool is available on all the servers that are a part of our modern cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support various versions of PHP, therefore if you move 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 instance, you can activate ionCube for this particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, and in case you switch back to the previous release of PHP, the instrument 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 specific domain without altering the settings for the whole web hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file in a domain folder with several lines of program code.