IonCube Loader is a tool, that is necessary to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and not authorized usage. Many script-driven applications, particularly community forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you purchase a script and you find that ionCube is among the hosting environment prerequisites, you need to make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it is not that hard to set it up when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server since the PHP environment should be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Cloud Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with every single cloud hosting plan that we provide and you're able to activate it anytime with only a few clicks, so you will be able to take advantage of script apps which require it. You're able to do that from the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to enable or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect within a minute, which means that you are able to proceed and install the app that you'd like without delay. The very same section allows you to change the PHP version that is active for your account, as we support numerous releases on our hi-tech cloud platform. If you move to a release that you've never used so far, you'll need to enable ionCube Loader again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
IonCube Loader is available with all semi-dedicated hosting plans that we offer, and you will not experience any kind of problems in case you'd like to install and work with some script app that requires the tool so as to function properly. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a button inside the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in a minute, so you are able to move forward with the app set up without delay. Due to the fact that we employ a revolutionary custom-made platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you will have to activate ionCube any time you move to a version that you haven't used before. In addition, you'll have the option to enable ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of code in it.