A lot of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encrypt their files in order to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you get a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without having it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow manage to do that, it will not function efficiently as most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a fresh website hosting account and you want to take advantage of some paid web app. If you buy a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with every single shared hosting that we offer and you can enable it at any time with only a couple of clicks, so you will be able to employ script applications that require it. You'll be able to do this through the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to enable or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect within a minute, which means that you will be able to proceed and install the app that you need right away. The very same section allows you to switch the PHP release that's active for your account, as we support several versions on our cutting-edge cloud platform. If you switch to a release that you haven't used so far, you'll have to enable ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder so as to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
As all semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script app that needs this tool to run efficiently. With a couple of clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you are able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Because we support multiple versions of PHP concurrently, you will need to do this any time you switch to a new release, and when you revert back to a release which you've already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be activated. When you have several sites in the same account and they require different versions of PHP, you will be able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of code you will be able to define both the PHP release as well as the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the website hosting account altogether.