IonCube Loader is a tool, that's required to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal use. A large number of script-driven applications, especially community forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the web hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it's not that hard to set it up when you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server since the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

If you buy a shared hosting through us, it'll be set up on our in-house made cloud platform where ionCube Loader is already set up, so you will not have any problems to manage any script application that requires the tool so as to function properly. In addition, we provide a few different releases of PHP, which means that in case you switch the version, you will need to activate ionCube once again. Our system remembers the adjustments you make, which means that in case you move back to the earlier version of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be turned on. The PHP version as well as the ionCube tool can be operated through the PHP Configuration area of our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Each change that you make takes literally just a click and it takes effect at once.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from us, you'll be able to use any kind of script-driven app that requires ionCube Loader since the tool is available on all of the servers which are a part of our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform. We also support different versions of PHP, so if you switch from PHP 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, for example, you can activate ionCube for that particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so if you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the entire website hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a few lines of program code.