Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encode their files to make sure 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 if you buy a paid script and you wish to set it up in a web hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader must be present on your server. Without having it, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow manage to do that, it won't operate appropriately due to the fact that most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a new website hosting account and you would like to use some paid web application. If you get a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added as the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Cloud Hosting
IonCube Loader is available with all of the cloud hosting packages that we offer, so when you require it in order to set up and run some script app which needs it, you can enable it with a single click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. As you're able to change the PHP version which is active for your account in the same section, you will need to activate the tool for each new version that you set. If you are more skillful, you are able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you will be able to run both new and older script applications for multiple websites within the same account - something that you won't be able to do with a lot of other website hosting suppliers out there.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you aquire a semi-dedicated server package from us, you'll be able to take advantage of any kind of script-driven application which needs ionCube Loader for the reason that the software tool is installed on all the servers which are a part of our revolutionary cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support several versions of PHP, therefore 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 activate ionCube for this particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so if you move back to the earlier version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the entire web hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.