IonCube Loader is a software tool, that is required to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app designed to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized usage. A large number of script-driven applications, especially forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you acquire a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the web hosting environment requirements, you should make sure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it is not that hard to set it up when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server because the PHP environment should be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Web Hosting
IonCube Loader comes with all the web hosting plans which we supply, so if you need it to set up and execute some script application that requires it, you can enable it with a single click from the Advanced section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Because you can switch the PHP release that's active for your account in the same section, you will need to activate the tool for every new version which you set. When you are more skillful, you can employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular website only, without affecting the entire account. In this way you'll be able to operate both new and older script applications for multiple sites inside the same account - something that you will not be able to do with lots of other hosting service providers available on the market.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
IonCube Loader is provided with all of the semi-dedicated servers that we offer, which means that you will not experience any kind of problems if you'd like to install and use some script application that requires the software tool in order to operate appropriately. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in a minute, therefore you will be able to move forward with the application set up without delay. For the reason that we employ an avant-garde tailor-made platform and we support many different versions of PHP simultaneously, you will have to activate ionCube any time you move to a version that you have not used before. You will also have the option to activate ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding several lines of code inside it.