IonCube Loader is a software instrument, which is necessary to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and / or not authorized usage. Various script-driven applications, particularly forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is among the web hosting environment prerequisites, you need to make sure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it is not that hard to set it up when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server because the PHP environment should be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Cloud Hosting
IonCube Loader is available with all cloud hosting plans that we supply, so if you need it in order to install and execute a script application that needs it, you can enable it with a click from the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. Because you can change the PHP release that is active for your account in the same section, you will have to activate the tool for each new version that you set. When you are more experienced, you're able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the whole account. Thus you are able to operate both new and older script apps for multiple sites in the same account - a thing that you will not be able to do with a lot of other website hosting providers out there.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
IonCube Loader is provided with all semi-dedicated service that we provide, so you won't experience any kind of problems if you'd like to install and use a script app that requires the software instrument so as to function appropriately. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a button inside the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in less than a minute, therefore you are able to proceed with the application set up without any delays. Due to the fact that we employ a cutting-edge in-house made platform and we support several versions of PHP at the same time, you'll have to activate ionCube any time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. You will also have the option to activate ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by making a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of code inside it.