To avoid the reverse engineering of script apps, a number of developers encrypt their program code with instruments like ionCube PHP Encoder and make it human unreadable. This is valid for paid applications in particular, since anyone would be able to use and modify the unprotected code without having to pay the necessary license fees. If you obtain web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without any problems as long as a software instrument known as ionCube Loader is installed on the website hosting server. This loader makes it possible to run encoded files and you'll often find it as one of the prerequisites for a certain script app to be installed. As the encoded files are already precompiled, they're usually executed faster and this can enhance the general speed of your site.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every web hosting service that we offer and you are able to enable it at any time with only a couple of clicks, so you can use script applications which need it. You can do that from the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect in a minute, so you will be able to proceed and install the application that you would like right away. The same section will allow you to change the PHP release that is active for your account, because we support a number of releases on our state-of-the-art cloud platform. If you switch to a version that you've never used so far, you'll have to activate ionCube Loader again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder in order to set a PHP version different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script app that requires the software tool so as to run properly. With a couple of clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for your account. Because we support several versions of PHP concurrently, you'll need to do that any time you move to a new version, but if you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be active. If you have several websites inside the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you'll be able to create a php.ini file in each and every domain folder and with several lines of program code you'll be able to define both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.