A lot of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files in order to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you obtain a paid script and you wish to install it in a website hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without this, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do this, it won't function effectively due to the fact that most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you should make sure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a new website hosting account and you wish to take advantage of some paid web app. If you get a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added as the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all of the web hosting plans which we provide, so if you need it to install and execute a script app that requires it, you can enable it with a single click inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you can switch the PHP release that's active for your account in the same section, you'll need to activate the tool for each new version which you set. When you're more experienced, you can take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the whole account. Thus you will be able to manage both new and older script apps for multiple websites in the same account - something that you cannot do with a lot of other web hosting suppliers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Because all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script application which needs the tool so as to work properly. With a couple of clicks in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Since we support several releases of PHP concurrently, you'll need to do this each and every time you switch to a new version, and if you revert back to a version that you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. When you have a couple of websites inside the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you're able to set up a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with several lines of code you're able to define both the PHP release as well as the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.