In order to avoid the reverse engineering of script applications, many developers encrypt their code with tools like ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. The aforementioned is valid for paid applications in particular, as anybody could possibly use and change the unprotected code without having to pay the necessary license fees. If you purchase web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without a problem as long as a software tool called ionCube Loader is a part of the website hosting server. This loader makes it possible to run encoded files and you will often notice it among the prerequisites for a certain script application to be installed. Because the encrypted files are already precompiled, they are generally executed a lot quicker and this will raise the overall speed of your site.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all web servers which are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, therefore regardless of the Linux shared web hosting package that you pick during the signup process, you can activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complex. The very same section allows 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 some other version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Due to the fact that our platform is rather flexible, you can even set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you need to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team will assist you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Due to the fact that all the semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script application which needs this software tool to work effectively. With a couple of clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for the account. Because we support multiple releases of PHP simultaneously, you'll have to do that every time you move to a new version, but when you revert back to a version which you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. When you have a couple of websites inside the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you'll be able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of code you're able to define both the PHP release and the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the web hosting account altogether.