A lot of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you purchase a paid script and you want to install it in a hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without having it, you will not be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it won't work appropriately for the reason that most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a new web hosting account and you'd like to employ some paid web app. If you get a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is installed on all the web servers that are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, which means that regardless of the web hosting that you get during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complex. The same section will allow you to pick 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 in case you would like to move to some other version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Since our platform is rather flexible, you may even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you would like to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team will be able to assist you very quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
IonCube Loader is available with all semi-dedicated servers that we supply, which means that you won't encounter any problems in case you'd like to set up and work with a script application which requires the instrument to function properly. Enabling it is as easy as clicking a single button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in a minute, which means that you can move forward with the app set up without delay. For the reason that we employ a cutting-edge tailor-made platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you will have to enable ionCube any time you move to a version that you haven't used before. In addition, you'll have the option to enable ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of program code within it.