To stop the reverse engineering of script applications, many developers encode their code with instruments like ionCube PHP Encoder and make it human unreadable. The aforementioned is valid for paid applications in particular, as anyone would be able to use and modify the unencrypted code without paying the necessary license fees. In case you obtain web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without any problems as long as an instrument known as ionCube Loader is installed on the web hosting server. This loader makes it possible to run encrypted files and you will often notice it as one of the prerequisites for a particular script application to be installed. As the encrypted files are already precompiled, they are normally executed much faster and this can raise the general speed of your site.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux cloud hosting that we offer and you are able to enable it at any time with only a couple of clicks, so you can take advantage of script apps that need it. You will be able to do this from the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a button. The change will take effect in a minute, therefore you will be able to go ahead and install the app that you would like without delay. The same section will allow you to switch the PHP release that is active for your account, because we support several releases on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform. In case you move to a release that you have never used so far, you will have to enable ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder so as to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you buy a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you can employ any script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader due to the fact that the tool is installed on all servers which are part of our revolutionary cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support several releases of PHP, which means that 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 instance, you can enable ionCube for this particular version with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, and in case you move back to the earlier version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to choose the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with several lines of code.