Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files so as to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so when you acquire a paid script and you would like to set it up in a website hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without it, you can't install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it won't operate appropriately because almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a new website hosting account and you want to take advantage of some paid web application. If you obtain a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added as your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all web servers which are part of our cloud web hosting platform, therefore regardless of the Linux cloud hosting that you select during the signup process, you can activate it through your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The exact same section will allow you to choose the PHP version for your account (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), which means that in case you choose to switch to another version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Because our platform is really flexible, you can set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you'd like to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will help you very quickly.