IonCube Loader is an instrument, that's needed to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal use. Plenty of script-driven apps, especially community forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you obtain a script and you find that ionCube is among the website hosting environment prerequisites, you have to ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it is not that difficult to set it up if you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all website hosting packages that we supply, so if you require it to set up and execute some script application which requires it, you can enable it with a single click inside the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. As you're able to switch the PHP release that is active for your account from the same section, you'll need to activate the instrument for any new version which you set. When you're more experienced, you are able to take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you will be able to manage both new and older script applications for multiple websites inside the same account - a thing that you can't do with various other web hosting providers on the market.