A lot of script-driven apps, particularly paid content management systems, encode their files in order to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app named ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so, in case you obtain a paid script and you'd like to install it in a website hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without this, you will not be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it will not operate appropriately because most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is present if you get a new hosting account and you want to work with some paid web app. If you purchase a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added since the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all web hosting plans which we provide, so if you need it to set up and run some script app which requires it, you can activate it with a single click in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you'll be able to switch the PHP release that is active for your account from the same section, you need to activate the tool for every new version which you set. When you're more skillful, you will be able to take advantage of 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 website only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you are able to run both new and older script applications for multiple sites within the same account - something that you will not be able to do with numerous other web hosting suppliers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is provided with all semi-dedicated plans that we supply, and you won't have any problems if you'd like to install and work with a script app which requires the tool so as to function properly. Enabling it is as easy as clicking a single button inside the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, therefore you'll be able to proceed with the app set up without delay. For the reason that we use a cutting-edge custom-built platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you'll need to activate ionCube any time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. Additionally, you have the option to enable ionCube loader and even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by making a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of program code in it.