IonCube Loader is a software instrument, which is needed to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized use. Various script-driven applications, in particular discussion forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is among the hosting environment prerequisites, you should make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it is not that hard to install it if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server as the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all web servers which are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore irrespective of the Linux cloud hosting that you get during the signup process, you can activate it through your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first web hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complicated. The exact 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), which means that in case you would like to switch to another version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Since our platform is very flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you'd like to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will assist you within minutes.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we supply, and you will not encounter any kind of problems if you would like to install and work with a script application which requires the software tool to operate appropriately. Enabling it is as easy as clicking a button in the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in less than a minute, therefore you will be able to proceed with the app installation without delay. Since we use an innovative custom-made platform and we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to enable ionCube every time you switch to a version that you have not used before. You will also have the option to activate ionCube loader or even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of program code in it.