Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly paid content management systems, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you buy a paid script and you wish to install it in a web hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without this, you will not be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it won't function properly due to the fact that most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a fresh website hosting account and you wish to employ some paid web app. If you get a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Hosting
IonCube Loader is available on all the web servers that are part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore irrespective of the Linux hosting that you pick during the signup process, you will be able to enable it through your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The same section will allow you to select 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 if you would like to switch to another version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is very flexible, you can even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you'd like to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team shall help you within minutes.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
IonCube Loader is provided with all semi-dedicated hosting services that we offer, which means that you will not experience any kind of problems if you'd like to set up and work with some script app that requires the software tool to operate properly. Activating it is as simple as clicking a button inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, so you can move forward with the app set up without any delays. Since we use an avant-garde tailor-made platform and we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to activate ionCube every time you move to a version that you have not used before. You will also have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of program code within it.