IonCube Loader is an instrument, that's required to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal use. Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly online forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you obtain a script and you find that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment prerequisites, you should make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it's not that hard to install it if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server as the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single cloud hosting that we offer and you're able to enable it anytime with only a few clicks, so you'll be able to take advantage of script apps that need it. You are able to do this through the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect in a minute, which means that you are able to proceed and install the app that you would like right away. The very same section will allow you to switch the PHP release which 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 to date, you'll have to activate ionCube Loader again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, so you won't encounter any problems if you would like to install and use a script app which requires the software tool to function appropriately. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a button in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, which means that you are able to move forward with the application installation without delay. Because we use an innovative custom-made platform and we support a number of versions of PHP simultaneously, you'll have to activate ionCube every time you move to a version that you haven't used before. You will also have the option to enable ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of program code within it.