A lot of script-driven apps, especially 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 if you get a paid script and you want to install it in a website hosting account, a tool known as ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without it, you can't install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it will not function properly for the reason that most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a fresh web hosting account and you wish to work with some paid web application. If you obtain a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux web hosting service that we offer and you will be able to activate it anytime with just a couple of clicks, so you can use script applications that require it. You'll be able to do that from the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect within a minute, which means that you can proceed and set up the app that you need without delay. The same section will allow you to change the PHP version that is active for your account, because we support several releases on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform. If you move to a release that you've never used so far, you will have to enable ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder in order to set a PHP version different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all Linux semi-dedicated services that we supply, and you won't have any kind of problems in case you'd like to install and work with a script application which requires the instrument to operate properly. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a button inside the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, which means that you can move forward with the app installation without delay. For the reason that we use a hi-tech custom platform and we support multiple versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll have to activate ionCube every time you switch 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 creating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of program code in it.