IonCube Loader is a tool, which is needed to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal usage. A large number of script-driven apps, in particular forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you get a script and you notice that ionCube is among the website hosting environment prerequisites, you have to ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it's not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server because the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each Linux hosting that we offer and you are able to enable it at any time with just a few clicks, so you will be able to employ script applications that require it. You will be able to do that from the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect in a minute, which means that you'll be able to proceed and install the app that you'd like without delay. The very same section will allow you to switch the PHP version that's active for your account, because we support multiple versions on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform. If you switch to a version that you have not used to date, you will have to enable ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder so as to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to take advantage of any kind of script-driven application which needs ionCube Loader since the software tool comes with all the servers that are a part of our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform. We also support multiple releases of PHP, therefore 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 example, you can enable ionCube for this particular version with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, so if you move back to the previous release of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to pick the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with a few lines of code.