Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files so as to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so, in case you purchase a paid script and you would like to install it in a website hosting account, an instrument known as ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without it, you can't install the script or in case you somehow manage to do this, it won't operate effectively since most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a fresh web hosting account and you would like to work with some paid web application. If you purchase a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added since your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is provided with all the cloud web hosting plans that we offer, so when you need it in order to set up and execute some script application which needs it, you can activate it with a click from the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Because you can change the PHP release which is active for your account from the same section, you'll have to enable the instrument for any new version which you set. If you're more skillful, you're able to use 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 that particular website only, without affecting the whole account. This way you can manage both new and older script apps for multiple sites inside the same account - something that you will not be able to do with many other hosting providers out there.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
Since 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 app that needs the tool so as to run effectively. With several clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you'll be able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Because we support a couple of versions of PHP concurrently, you will have to do this each time you move to a new version, and if you revert back to a release which you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. In case you have multiple websites inside the same account and they require different releases of PHP, you can create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with a couple of lines of code you're able to define both the PHP release plus the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the hosting account altogether.