To stop the reverse engineering of script apps, a number of developers encrypt their code with tools such as ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. This is valid for paid apps in particular, as anyone could possibly use and change the unencrypted code without having to pay the needed license fees. If you get web software encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without a problem as long as an instrument called ionCube Loader is present on the web hosting server. This loader enables you to execute encoded files and you'll often notice it among the prerequisites for a given script application to be installed. As the encoded files are already precompiled, they are generally executed more rapidly and this can raise the general speed of your website.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all web servers which are part of our cloud hosting platform, therefore regardless of the shared hosting plan that you pick during the signup process, you will be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complex. The same section allows 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), so if you choose to move to another version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is flexible, you can set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you would like to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 technical support team shall help you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you get a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to use any script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader due to the fact that the software tool comes with all of the servers that are part of our revolutionary cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support various versions of PHP, so if you switch 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 example, you can enable ionCube for this particular release with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, so if you switch back to the earlier version of PHP, the instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to select the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the entire website hosting account. This is done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with a few lines of code.