IonCube Loader is a software tool, which is needed to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application designed to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering or unauthorized usage. Various script-driven applications, particularly online forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the hosting environment prerequisites, you need to ensure that your web hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it's not that hard to install it when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server due to the fact that the PHP environment should be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all web servers that are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore regardless of the Linux shared web hosting that you select during the signup process, you will be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The very same section enables you to choose the PHP version 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 in case you decide to move to some other version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is flexible, you may even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you'd like to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team will help you within minutes.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since all of the 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 application that requires this tool to work efficiently. With several clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel you will be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. Because we support several versions of PHP concurrently, you'll need to do this every time you move to a different version, but when you revert back to a version which you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. When you have a couple of sites in the same account and they require different releases of PHP, you are able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of code you're able to define both the PHP version and the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the hosting account as a whole.