Plenty of script-driven applications, especially paid cms, encode their files so as to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you purchase a paid script and you intend to set it up in a hosting account, an instrument known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it will not operate appropriately for the reason that most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is present if you get a new hosting account and you would like to work with some paid web app. If you buy a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added as the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is available on all the web servers which are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, which means that whatever the Linux web hosting package that you get during the signup process, you will be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The exact same section will allow you to choose 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 if you want to move to a different version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. As our platform is flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you wish to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team will assist you within minutes.