IonCube Loader is a tool, which is required to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application designed to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering or illegal use. Numerous script-driven applications, especially forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is one of the web hosting environment prerequisites, you should make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it is not that hard to install it when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all the hosting plans that we offer, so if you need it to set up and execute a script application that requires it, you can activate it with a single click inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Since you can switch the PHP version that's active for your account in the same section, you'll have to enable the instrument for every new version which you set. If you're more experienced, you can use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you're able to operate both new and older script apps for multiple sites within the same account - a thing that you will not be able to do with various other web hosting providers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Each and every semi-dedicated server account that's generated on our outstanding cloud hosting platform includes ionCube Loader support, which means that you will be able to install any script application that needs the tool. Then employ it in order to launch and maintain your internet presence. You can enable ionCube from the PHP Configuration section of the Control Panel and it will take you just a couple of clicks to do this. The change takes effect right away, so you are able to go ahead and install the necessary script in your account. If you decide to change the PHP version that is active for your account, you should enable ionCube for the new release too. Our custom-built platform also allows you to have a different PHP release for each domain or subdomain, which is done with a php.ini file in each domain folder. In the same way, you're able to enable/disable ionCube Loader for each site hosted in your semi-dedicated account.