Plenty of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encode their files so as to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you obtain a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a hosting account, an instrument known as ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without having it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it won't function properly as almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a fresh hosting account and you wish to use some paid web application. If you buy a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added as your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each Linux web hosting service that we provide and you are able to enable it anytime with just a couple of clicks, so you will be able to take advantage of script apps that need it. You are able to do this through the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect in a minute, so you can go ahead and set up the app that you would like right away. The same section allows you to change the PHP version that is active for your account, as we support numerous versions on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform. In case you move to a release that you've never used so far, you'll need to enable ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder in order to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you buy a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to use any kind of script-driven app that needs ionCube Loader since the software tool is available on all servers that are a part of our revolutionary cloud web hosting platform. We also support multiple versions of PHP, which means that if you switch 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 example, you can enable ionCube for this particular release with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so if you move back to the earlier version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also offer the option to pick the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with a few lines of code.