Plenty of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so, in case you purchase a paid script and you wish to set it up in a hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without it, you can't install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it won't operate appropriately because almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a fresh hosting account and you want to employ some paid web application. If you obtain a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added because the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is available on all the web servers that are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, so irrespective of the website hosting that you select during the signup process, you will be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complex. The same section will allow you to select the PHP version 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), and in case you would like to move to another version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is very flexible, you can set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you need to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will be able to assist you quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
IonCube Loader is provided with all of the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, so you will not encounter any kind of problems if you'd like to install and work with some script app which requires the software tool in order to operate appropriately. Activating it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in less than a minute, so you are able to move forward with the app set up without any delays. Since we employ a cutting-edge custom platform and we support a number of versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll need to enable ionCube any time you move to a version that you haven't used before. Additionally, you have the option to activate ionCube loader and even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of program code within it.