In order to prevent the reverse engineering of script apps, numerous developers encrypt their code with instruments like ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid apps in particular, since anyone could possibly use and change the unencrypted code without having to pay the necessary license fees. When you obtain web software encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without a problem as long as a tool named ionCube Loader is present on the website hosting server. This loader allows you to run encrypted files and you'll often find it as one of the prerequisites for a particular script application to be installed. Due to the fact that the encrypted files are already precompiled, they're ordinarily executed much faster and this will raise the overall speed of your website.
IonCube in Shared Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is a part of all of the web servers that are part of our cloud web hosting platform, therefore irrespective of the Linux shared web hosting service that you select during the signup process, you can enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The exact same section enables you to select the PHP version 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 if you would like to switch to a different version, you only need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Due to the fact that our platform is flexible, you can set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you'd like to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will be able to help you quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
Since all semi-dedicated server accounts are set up on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script app that requires the tool in order to run properly. With just a few clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you are able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for your account. As we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you will need to do that every time you switch to a different release, but when you revert back to a release that you've already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. When you have several websites in the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you're able to create a php.ini file in each domain folder and with several lines of code you're able to define both the PHP version and the status of ionCube irrespective of what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.