IonCube Loader is a tool, that is required to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized use. Lots of script-driven applications, in particular discussion forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you obtain a script and you find that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment requirements, you need to make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it's not that hard to install it if you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server since the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all web servers which are part of our cloud web hosting platform, so irrespective of the shared hosting that you select during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it through the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The exact same section enables 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), and if you want to switch to another version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is very flexible, you can set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you would like to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will be able to assist you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you aquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you can employ any script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader as the tool comes with all of the servers which are part of our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform. We also support several versions of PHP, so if you move 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 this particular version with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so if you move back to the earlier version of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the whole web hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with a few lines of code.