To prevent the reverse engineering of script applications, numerous developers encode their program code with instruments like ionCube PHP Encoder and make it human unreadable. This is valid for paid apps in particular, because anyone would be able to use and modify the unprotected code without paying the needed license fees. If you acquire web software encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without any problems as long as a software instrument named ionCube Loader is a part of the web hosting server. This loader makes it possible to execute encrypted files and you'll often see it among the prerequisites for a certain script application to be set up. Due to the fact that the encrypted files are already precompiled, they are generally executed faster and this can increase the general speed of your website.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all of the shared hosting plans that we supply, so any time you need it to set up and run some script app that needs it, you can activate it with a single click inside the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. Because you'll be able to change the PHP release that is active for your account from the same section, you'll have to enable the tool for every new version that you set. If you are more skillful, you're able to take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the whole account. This way you can manage both new and older script apps for multiple sites within the same account - a thing that you won't be able to do with various other website hosting providers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you obtain a semi-dedicated server package from us, you'll be able to employ any script-driven application that needs ionCube Loader because the tool comes with all the servers that are a part of our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform. We also support different versions of PHP, so if you move 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 that particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, so if you switch back to the earlier version of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to select the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the entire website hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with a few lines of code.