IonCube Loader is a software tool, that's necessary to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal use. A great number of script-driven applications, in particular discussion boards, cms and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you buy a script and you find that ionCube is among the web hosting environment prerequisites, you need to ensure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it's not that difficult to install it when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server due to the fact that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is available on all the web servers which are part of our cloud website hosting platform, which means that whatever the Linux shared hosting package that you pick during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complex. The same section will allow 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 want to switch to some other version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. As our platform is very flexible, you can even set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you'd like to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will help you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you get a semi-dedicated server package from us, you'll be able to employ any kind of script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader as the software tool is installed on all servers that are part of our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform. In addition, we support different versions of PHP, so if you move 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 this particular release with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, so in case you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a few lines of program code.