Lots of script-driven applications, especially paid cms, encode their files to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application called ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you purchase a paid script and you intend to install it in a website hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader must be present on your server. Without this, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it won't operate efficiently because most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a new hosting account and you want to work with some paid web app. If you buy a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added as the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all of the web servers that are part of our cloud web hosting platform, so whatever the cloud hosting that you select during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it from your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The very same section will allow you to select the PHP version for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5), which means that if you want to switch to another version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Due to the fact that our platform is really flexible, you may even set a different PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you would like to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will be able to help you quickly.