Plenty of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encode their files in order to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you buy a paid script and you want to set it up in a web hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader must be present on your server. Without it, you will not be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do that, it will not function properly due to the fact that most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a new website hosting account and you want to use some paid web app. If you obtain a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added since the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all the shared web hosting packages that we supply, so every time you need it in order to set up and run some script app which needs it, you can activate it with a click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. Because you are able to switch the PHP version that's active for your account from the same section, you'll need to activate the instrument for any new version which you set. In case you are more experienced, you will be able to take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular website only, without affecting the entire account. In this way you'll be able to operate both new and older script apps for multiple websites within the same account - something that you can't do with numerous other website hosting suppliers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all Linux semi-dedicated packages that we supply, so you will not encounter any kind of problems in case you'd like to set up and use a script app which requires the software instrument in order to function properly. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a 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, therefore you're able to proceed with the app installation without any delays. Due to the fact that we use a cutting-edge in-house built platform and we support multiple versions of PHP simultaneously, you will need to enable ionCube every time you switch to a version that you have not used before. You will also have the option to enable ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of program code inside it.