IonCube Loader is an instrument, that's needed to run files that are encrypted 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 unauthorized use. Various script-driven applications, especially community forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you obtain a script and you find that ionCube is among the hosting environment prerequisites, you have to make sure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it's not that difficult to install it if you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server due to the fact that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all the web servers which are part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore regardless of the hosting that you get during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The same section allows you to choose 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 in case you want to move to a different version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Since our platform is rather flexible, you may even set some other PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you wish to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 technical support team shall help you quickly.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is available with all of the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, so you won't have any kind of problems in case you would like to install and use a script application which requires the software instrument so as to function properly. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a single button inside the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, which means that you're able to move forward with the application set up without delay. Because we use an avant-garde in-house made platform and we support a number of versions of PHP at the same time, you'll need to enable ionCube any time you switch to a version that you have not used before. You will also have the option to activate ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by making a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of code inside it.