To stop the reverse engineering of script applications, a number of developers encrypt their code with tools such as ionCube PHP Encoder to make it human unreadable. The aforementioned is valid for paid apps in particular, as anybody could possibly use and change the unprotected code without having to pay the needed license fees. In case you obtain web software encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without a problem as long as a software tool known as ionCube Loader is available on the web hosting server. This loader enables you to run encoded files and you'll often notice it as one of the prerequisites for a given script app to be set up. As the encoded files are already precompiled, they're normally executed much faster and this can increase the overall speed of your site.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is installed on all web servers that are part of our cloud website hosting platform, so irrespective of the shared hosting plan that you pick during the signup process, you can enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The same section allows you to select the PHP release 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 if you choose to move to a different version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. As our platform is really flexible, you may even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you want to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 support team will assist you within minutes.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
Because all the semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application that needs this tool to work effectively. With several clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. Since we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you will have to do this each and every time you move to a different release, and when you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. If you have a couple of websites inside the same account and they require different versions of PHP, you'll be able to set up a php.ini file in every single domain folder and with several lines of program code you are able to define both the PHP release as well as the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the hosting account altogether.