Plenty of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encrypt their files so as to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you obtain a paid script and you would like to set it up in a hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without having it, you can't install the script or if you somehow find a way to do this, it won't function appropriately as most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you should make sure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a new website hosting account and you wish to take advantage of some paid web application. If you obtain a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux cloud web hosting service that we supply and you will be able to enable it at any time with just a couple of clicks, so you will be able to work with script applications which require it. You are able to do that through the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to enable or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect within a minute, so you will be able to proceed and install the application that you would like right away. The same section allows you to change the PHP release which is active for your account, because we support a number of versions on our leading-edge cloud platform. If you move to a release that you've never used so far, you will need to enable ionCube Loader again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder in order to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Because all semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script app which requires the tool so as to work effectively. With several clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for your account. As we support several releases of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to do this each time you switch to a new version, but when you revert back to a version which you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. If you have a couple of websites in the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you're able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with several lines of code you will be able to define both the PHP release as well as the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.