Lots of script-driven apps, particularly paid cms, encrypt their files to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so, in case you acquire a paid script and you intend to set it up in a hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader needs to be present on your server. Without having it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it will not operate effectively due to the fact that most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a fresh web hosting account and you would like to take advantage of some paid web application. If you acquire a shared hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added because the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all web servers which are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, so whatever the shared hosting that you choose during the signup process, you will be able to activate it through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complicated. The same section enables you to pick 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 switch to another version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Since our platform is really flexible, you can set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you wish to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 support team will be able to help you very quickly.