Plenty of script-driven apps, particularly paid content management systems, encode their files to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you obtain a paid script and you would like to set it up in a website hosting account, an instrument called ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it won't operate effectively for the reason that most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a fresh hosting account and you'd like to use some paid web application. If you buy a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added as the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every Linux website hosting that we supply and you're able to activate it at any time with only a few clicks, so you'll be able to take advantage of script applications that need it. You're able to do this from the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect within a minute, therefore you are able to go ahead and install the application that you would like without delay. The very same section allows you to change the PHP version that's active for your account, because we support a number of releases on our hi-tech cloud platform. If you switch to a version that you have never used to date, you will need to activate ionCube Loader again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP version different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you obtain a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you can take advantage of any script-driven app that needs ionCube Loader for the reason that the software tool is installed on all the servers which are part of our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform. In addition, we support several releases of PHP, which means that 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 version with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, so in case you switch back to the earlier release of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.