To stop the reverse engineering of script applications, numerous developers encode their code with instruments such as ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid applications in particular, since anybody would be able to use and change the unprotected code without having to pay the required license fees. When you get web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without any problems as long as a software tool named ionCube Loader is a part of the web hosting server. This loader allows you to execute encoded files and you'll often find it among the prerequisites for a certain script application to be installed. Because the encoded files are already precompiled, they are ordinarily executed faster and this can increase the general speed of your site.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single shared website hosting plan that we offer and you will be able to enable it anytime with just a couple of clicks, so you can take advantage of script applications that need it. You can do this through the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect within a minute, which means that you're able to go ahead and install the application that you would like without delay. The exact same section will allow you to change the PHP version which is active for your account, because we support several releases on our advanced cloud platform. If you move to a version that you've never used to date, you'll have to enable ionCube Loader again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder in order to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

Because all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script application that needs the tool in order to work properly. With just a few clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you can activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Since we support a couple of releases of PHP concurrently, you'll have to do this each time you switch to a new version, 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 a couple of sites in the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you can set up a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with a couple of lines of code you will be able to define both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.