To stop the reverse engineering of script apps, a number of developers encrypt their code with instruments like ionCube PHP Encoder to make it human unreadable. This is valid for paid apps in particular, since anybody would be able to use and modify the unprotected code without having to pay the needed license fees. In case you purchase web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without a problem as long as a tool named ionCube Loader is present on the hosting server. This loader makes it possible to run encoded files and you'll often see it as one of the prerequisites for a given script application to be installed. Since the encoded files are already precompiled, they're ordinarily executed much faster and this can raise the overall speed of your site.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all web servers which are part of our cloud website hosting platform, which means that whatever the Linux website hosting package that you choose during the signup process, you will be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The very same section allows you to select 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), so if you choose to switch to another version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Due to the fact that our platform is very flexible, you may even set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you'd like to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team will be able to help you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages that we supply, and you won't encounter any problems if you would like to set up and work with a script application that requires the software tool to function appropriately. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, which means that you'll be able to move forward with the app set up without delay. Because we use a hi-tech tailor-made platform and we support many different versions of PHP at the same time, you'll have to activate ionCube every time you move to a version that you have not used before. In addition, you'll have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of code within it.