Lots of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encode their files so as to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an app known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you buy a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a web hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without having it, you cannot install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it won't work appropriately due to the fact that almost all of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a fresh web hosting account and you'd like to take advantage of some paid web application. If you obtain a shared 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 Shared Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is present on all web servers that are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, so regardless of the shared web hosting service that you select during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it through the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The very same section will allow you to choose the PHP version 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 would like to move to a different version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is flexible, you can set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you'd like to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team will be able to assist you in no time.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you aquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you can take advantage of any script-driven application that needs ionCube Loader since the tool is installed on all the servers that are part of our innovative cloud web hosting platform. We also support multiple 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 instance, you can enable ionCube for that particular release with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, and if you move back to the earlier release of PHP, the instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to select the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file in a domain folder with a few lines of code.