In order to stop the reverse engineering of script apps, a number of developers encode their program code with tools such as ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid apps in particular, as anybody could possibly use and modify the unprotected code without having to pay the required license fees. In case you purchase web software encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without a problem as long as a software instrument called ionCube Loader is present on the web hosting server. This loader makes it possible to execute encrypted files and you'll often find it on the list of prerequisites for a particular script app to be set up. Because the encrypted files are already precompiled, they are generally executed a lot quicker and this can raise the general speed of your website.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all web servers which are part of our cloud web hosting platform, therefore whatever the Linux cloud service that you get during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complicated. The same section enables 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), so in case you choose to move to some other version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Since our platform is flexible, you can set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you wish to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 support team shall help you very quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to use any script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader because the tool comes with all of the servers which are a part of our revolutionary cloud web hosting platform. In addition, we support several releases of PHP, and 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 instance, you can enable ionCube for this particular version with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your decision, so in case you switch back to the earlier version of PHP, the software tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also offer the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the whole web hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file in a domain folder with several lines of code.