In order to avoid the reverse engineering of script applications, a number of developers encode their code with instruments such as ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid apps in particular, as anybody could possibly use and modify the unencrypted code without having to pay the necessary license fees. If you get web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you can use it without a problem as long as an instrument called ionCube Loader is present on the website hosting server. This loader enables you to run encoded files and you will often notice it as one of the prerequisites for a certain script app to be installed. Due to the fact that the encoded files are already precompiled, they are usually executed a lot faster and this can improve the overall speed of your site.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all of the web servers that are part of our cloud hosting platform, therefore regardless of the Linux cloud hosting package that you get during the signup process, you can enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complex. The exact same section will allow you to choose 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), and in case you would like to move to some other version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. As our platform is really flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you'd like to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will assist you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you obtain a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to take advantage of any kind of script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader because the software tool is available on all servers that are part of our advanced cloud web hosting platform. Furthermore, we support different versions of PHP, and if you move 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 enable ionCube for this particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, so in case you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer 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 entire web hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with several lines of program code.