Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly paid content management systems, encrypt their files so as to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you get a paid script and you'd like to install it in a web hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without this, you can't install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it will not work properly because most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a new web hosting account and you'd like to work with some paid web application. If you buy a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added because the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting
When you get a Linux cloud website hosting through us, it will be created on our custom-built cloud platform where ionCube Loader is already installed, so you won't have any kind of problems to run any script application that requires the tool in order to run appropriately. In addition, we offer you several different releases of PHP, which means that in case you change the version, you will have to activate ionCube again. Our system remembers the adjustments you make, so in case you go back to the previous version of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be enabled. The PHP version as well as the ionCube instrument can be managed through the PHP Configuration part of our Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. Any change that you do takes literally just a mouse-click and it will take effect right away.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you'll be able to take advantage of any kind of script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader due to the fact that the tool is available on all servers that are a part of our advanced cloud hosting platform. We also support different versions of PHP, and 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 this particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, and if you move back to the previous release of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.