Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encrypt their files in order to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you acquire a paid script and you want to install it in a website hosting account, an instrument called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without having it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it will not function properly as almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is present when you get a new web hosting account and you wish to work with some paid web app. If you get a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every Linux cloud website hosting that we offer and you will be able to activate it anytime with just a few clicks, so you'll be able to use script apps which require it. You will be able to do that through the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect in a minute, so you're able to go ahead and install the app that you need right away. The exact same section will allow you to change the PHP release that is active for your account, as we support multiple releases on our hi-tech cloud platform. In case you move to a version that you have not used to date, you'll need to enable ionCube Loader again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder so as to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.