IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that's necessary to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app employed to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering or unauthorized usage. A great number of script-driven applications, especially discussion boards, cms and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is among the web hosting environment prerequisites, you have to make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it is not that hard to set it up when you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server as the PHP environment should be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all shared hosting plans that we offer, so if you require it to set up and run some script application which requires it, you can activate it with a single click from the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you'll be able to change the PHP version that is active for your account in the same section, you'll have to activate the instrument for each new version which you set. If you're more skillful, you'll be able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for that particular website only, without affecting the entire account. In this way you can run both new and older script applications for multiple websites inside the same account - something that you can't do with a lot of other website hosting service providers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is available with all of the semi-dedicated plans that we provide, so you will not encounter any kind of problems in case you would like to install and use a script app that requires the instrument so as to operate appropriately. Activating it is as easy as clicking a button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in less than a minute, which means that you're able to proceed with the application set up without any delays. As we use a revolutionary in-house made platform and we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you will have to enable ionCube any time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. You will also have the option to activate ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of program code within it.