A lot of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files in order to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you buy a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a web hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without it, you will not be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do that, it won't operate appropriately as almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a fresh hosting account and you want to employ some paid web app. If you acquire a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added since the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each shared web hosting plan that we provide and you can activate it anytime with just a couple of clicks, so you can use script applications that require it. You are able to do this from the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect within a minute, so you are able to proceed and set up the app that you need right away. The very same section will allow you to change the PHP release which is active for your account, as we support a number of versions on our leading-edge cloud platform. In case you move to a version that you have never used to date, you'll need to enable ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder to set a PHP version different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.