To avoid the reverse engineering of script applications, a lot of developers encrypt their program code with tools like ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. The aforementioned is valid for paid apps in particular, as anybody would be able to use and change the unprotected code without having to pay the necessary license fees. In case you acquire web software encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without a problem as long as a software tool named ionCube Loader is installed on the hosting server. This loader allows you to run encrypted files and you will often notice it as one of the prerequisites for a given script app to be set up. As the encoded files are already precompiled, they're normally executed much faster and this can raise the overall speed of your website.
IonCube in Hosting
IonCube Loader is present on all of the web servers that are part of our cloud hosting platform, therefore regardless of the Linux hosting that you get during the signup process, you will be able to enable it through the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The exact same section will allow you to pick the PHP release 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), and in case you would like to move to a different version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you want to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 support team will help you very quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Because all semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script application which needs this software tool so as to work efficiently. With several clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Since we support multiple versions of PHP concurrently, you'll need to do this every time you move to a different version, but when you revert back to a release which you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. If you have multiple websites inside 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 a couple of lines of code you are able to define both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.