Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encode their files in order to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an app called ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you acquire a paid script and you intend to set it up in a website hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without having it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it will not operate properly as almost all of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you have to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a new hosting account and you wish to take advantage of some paid web application. If you acquire a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added as the entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Cloud Hosting
IonCube Loader is available with all the cloud hosting packages that we supply, so any time you need it to install and run a script application which requires it, you can activate it with a single click inside the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. Since you can change the PHP version which is active for your account in the same section, you need to enable the instrument for any new version which you set. If you're more skillful, you'll be able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the whole account. Thus you will be able to run both new and older script apps for multiple sites within the same account - a thing that you won't be able to do with many other web hosting service providers out there.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you buy a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to employ any script-driven app which requires ionCube Loader because the software tool is available on all the servers that are part of our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform. We also support multiple releases of PHP, which means that if you switch from PHP 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, for example, you can activate ionCube for this particular release with only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our platform will remember your choice, so in case you move back to the previous release of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.