IonCube Loader is a software instrument, which is necessary to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application employed to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering or not authorized usage. Many script-driven applications, in particular discussion boards, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you get a script and you find that ionCube is among the web hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it is not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server since the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Shared Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux shared website hosting package that we offer and you will be able to enable it anytime with only a couple of clicks, so you will be able to use script applications that require it. You're able to do this from the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect in a minute, so you'll be able to go ahead and install the application that you need right away. The exact same section allows you to change the PHP release that is active for your account, as we support a variety of versions on our state-of-the-art cloud platform. In case you move to a version that you have never used to date, you'll need to activate ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
IonCube Loader is available with all Linux semi-dedicated packages that we provide, so you will not have any kind of problems if you would like to install and use a script application which requires the software tool to function appropriately. Activating it is as simple as clicking a button inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, therefore you can proceed with the app set up without delay. For the reason that we employ a cutting-edge custom-built platform and we support several versions of PHP at the same time, you will have to activate ionCube any 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 release different from the one in the account as a whole by making a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of code in it.