A lot of script-driven apps, particularly paid content management systems, encrypt their files to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you get a paid script and you wish to set it up in a website hosting account, a tool known as ionCube Loader needs to 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 because most of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you should make sure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a fresh hosting account and you would like to take advantage of some paid web application. If you purchase a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added because your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is provided with all shared hosting plans that we provide, so every time you need it in order to set up and run some script application which needs it, you can activate it with a click inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. As you are able to change the PHP version that's active for your account in the same section, you'll have to enable the tool for any new version which you set. If you're more experienced, you're able to employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you can run both new and older script applications for multiple sites in the same account - a thing that you can't do with lots of other website hosting providers available on the market.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to take advantage of any kind of script-driven app that requires ionCube Loader because the software tool is available on all of the servers that are a part of our modern cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple versions of PHP, and 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 release with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so if you switch back to the earlier version of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to pick the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the whole web hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file in a domain folder with a couple of lines of program code.