Lots of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so, in case you acquire a paid script and you'd like to install it in a website hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without this, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it will not function appropriately because most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is present if you get a new hosting account and you wish to employ some paid web application. If you get a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because the entire server PHP environment will 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 just a couple of clicks, so you will be able to take advantage of script apps which require it. You will be able to do this through the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to enable or deactivate 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 need right away. The exact same section allows you to change the PHP release that's active for your account, as we support numerous releases on our state-of-the-art cloud platform. In case you move to a release that you have never used to date, you will have to activate ionCube Loader again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder in order to set a PHP release different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Due to the fact that all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script application that requires the software tool in order to function effectively. With just a few clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you can activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that is currently active for the account. As we support a couple of releases of PHP simultaneously, you will need to do this every time you switch to a different version, and when you revert back to a version that you've already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. If you have a couple of websites in the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you'll be able to set up a php.ini file in each domain folder and with several lines of code you are able to define both the PHP version and the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the hosting account altogether.