IonCube Loader is a tool, that's needed to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal use. Numerous script-driven apps, in particular online forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you get a script and you find that ionCube is on the list of hosting environment requirements, you have to make sure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it's not that difficult to set it up when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server due to the fact that the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting
If you purchase a Linux cloud website hosting from us, it'll be set up on our custom cloud hosting platform where ionCube Loader is already present, so you won't have any problems to run any script app that needs the tool to function properly. Furthermore, we provide a few different releases of PHP, which means that if you switch the version, you will need to enable ionCube again. Our platform remembers the adjustments you make, and if you go back to the earlier release of PHP which was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be enabled. The PHP version and the ionCube tool can be operated from the PHP Configuration area of our Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. Any change that you make takes literally just a mouse-click and it'll take effect at once.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Due to the fact that all the semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application that requires this tool so as to work effectively. With a couple of clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel you can activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Since we support a couple of versions of PHP at the same time, you will have to do this any time you switch to a new release, but if you revert back to a release that you've already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. When you have multiple websites in the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you can 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 plus the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.