In order to prevent the reverse engineering of script apps, a lot of developers encode their program code with instruments such as ionCube PHP Encoder and make it human unreadable. This is valid for paid applications in particular, as anybody would be able to use and change the unencrypted code without paying the required license fees. If you acquire web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without a problem as long as a software tool named ionCube Loader is installed on the hosting server. This loader allows you to execute encrypted files and you will often find it on the list of prerequisites for a particular script app to be installed. Because the encrypted files are already precompiled, they are usually executed more rapidly and this can improve the general speed of your website.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all the shared hosting packages that we provide, so every time you require it in order to set up and run some script application which needs it, you can activate it with a click inside the Advanced section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you can switch the PHP version that is active for your account from the same section, you'll need to enable the tool for every new version that you set. If you are more skillful, you will be able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for that particular website only, without affecting the entire account. This way you will be able to operate both new and older script apps for multiple sites inside the same account - a thing that you will not be able to do with lots of other hosting suppliers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you obtain a semi-dedicated server package from us, you'll be able to use any kind of script-driven application which needs ionCube Loader because the software tool comes with all servers that are part of our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support several releases of PHP, and 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 instance, you can enable ionCube for that particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so if you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also offer the option to pick the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file in a domain folder with a few lines of code.