IonCube Loader is a software instrument, which is needed to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized usage. A lot of script-driven applications, in particular message boards, cms and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you get a script and you find that ionCube is one of the hosting environment requirements, you need to ensure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it is not that difficult to install it if you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server as the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

When you get a Linux shared website hosting plan through our company, it'll be set up on our custom-built cloud platform where ionCube Loader is already present, so you won't have any kind of problems to run any script application that requires the tool so as to run appropriately. Furthermore, we offer a few different versions of PHP, therefore if you change the version, you will need to activate ionCube once again. Our platform remembers the changes you make, so in case you switch back to the previous version of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be enabled. Both the PHP version as well as the ionCube tool can be managed through the PHP Configuration section of our Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. Each change that you do takes literally just a mouse-click and it takes effect immediately.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you'll be able to use any kind of script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader because the tool comes with all servers which are a part of our revolutionary cloud website hosting platform. We also support multiple versions of PHP, which means that 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 that particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, so if you move back to the previous release of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to choose the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with a few lines of program code.