Lots of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you acquire a paid script and you would like to install it in a website hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader needs to 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 will not function properly for the reason that most of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a fresh hosting account and you wish to employ some paid web application. If you get a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Cloud Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every Linux cloud hosting that we supply and you are able to activate it at any time with only a few clicks, so you'll be able to employ script apps that need it. You can do that from the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect in a minute, so you will be able to proceed and set up the application that you would like without delay. The exact same section allows you to switch the PHP release that is active for your account, because we support a number of releases on our cutting-edge cloud platform. In case you switch to a release that you have never used so far, you'll need to activate ionCube Loader again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder in order to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
IonCube Loader is available with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, so you won't encounter any kind of problems if you'd like to set up and use some script app that requires the tool so as to function properly. Activating it is as simple as clicking a button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in a minute, therefore you will be able to move forward with the app set up without delay. Since we use an innovative in-house made platform and we support several versions of PHP simultaneously, you will have to enable ionCube any time you move to a version that you haven't used before. In addition, you'll have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of code within it.