IonCube Loader is a software instrument, which is needed to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal usage. A large number of script-driven applications, in particular discussion boards, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the hosting environment prerequisites, you have to make sure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it's not that difficult to install it when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment should be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.
IonCube in Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each Linux website hosting service that we supply and you're able to activate it at any time with only a few 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 the Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to enable or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect within a minute, which means that you'll be able to proceed and install the app that you would like right away. The exact same section will allow you to switch the PHP version which is active for your account, because we support several releases on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform. In case you move to a release that you haven't used to date, you will have to enable ionCube Loader again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder so as to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
Due to the fact that all semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application which needs this software tool so as to run efficiently. With just a few clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for your account. Because we support a couple of versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll have to do that each and every time you switch to a different release, and when you revert back to a version which you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. In case you have several sites inside the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you're able to create a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with a couple of lines of code you'll be able to define both the PHP version and the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.