Plenty of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encrypt their files to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you get a paid script and you intend to install it in a website hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without having it, you can't install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it won't function efficiently as almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a new website hosting account and you wish to employ some paid web application. If you purchase a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added because your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all of the hosting packages that we provide, so any time you require it in order to install and run some script app which requires it, you can enable it with a single click in the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you are able to switch the PHP release that is active for your account in the same section, you need to activate the instrument for every new version which you set. When you're more experienced, you will be able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the entire account. In this way you are able to run both new and older script apps for multiple sites within the same account - a thing that you will not be able to do with lots of other web hosting service providers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Since all semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script app which needs this software tool in order to work properly. With several clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for your account. Since we support a couple of versions of PHP at the same time, you'll have to do this each time you switch to a different release, but when you revert back to a version which you've already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be activated. In case you have multiple websites in the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you will be able to set up a php.ini file in each and every domain folder and with several lines of code you'll be able to define both the PHP release and the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.