Lots of script-driven applications, particularly paid content management systems, encrypt their files in order 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, in case you get a paid script and you want to install it in a website hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader must be present on your server. Without having it, you cannot install the script or in case you somehow manage to do that, it will not work appropriately due to the fact that most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is present if you get a fresh hosting account and you'd like to employ some paid web application. If you acquire a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added as the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is present on all of the web servers which are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, therefore irrespective of the Linux web hosting that you select during the signup process, you will be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The same section allows you to select 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 if you decide to move to some other version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Since our platform is really flexible, you can even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing 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 support team will assist you in no time.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you can use any script-driven application that needs ionCube Loader as the tool is available on all the servers which are a part of our advanced cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support several releases of PHP, so if you switch 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 example, you can activate ionCube for that particular release with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, and if you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the whole website hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a couple of lines of program code.