Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you buy a paid script and you would like to set it up in a web hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without having it, you will not be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it won't function properly since most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a new website hosting account and you want to employ some paid web app. If you obtain a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is installed on all the web servers which are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, which means that irrespective of the Linux website hosting service that you pick during the signup process, you will be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complicated. The exact same section allows 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), which means that in case you decide to move to a different version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Since our platform is very flexible, you may even set a different PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you wish to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team will be able to assist you very quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
IonCube Loader is provided with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, and you will not encounter any problems if you would like to set up and work with some script app which requires the tool so as to operate appropriately. Activating it is as easy as clicking a button inside the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in less than a minute, therefore you can move forward with the application set up without delay. As we use an avant-garde tailor-made platform and we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you will need to enable ionCube every time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. Additionally, you have the option to activate ionCube loader or even to set a PHP version 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 code within it.