IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that is required to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application designed to make PHP code human unreadable, so as to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal usage. Various script-driven applications, in particular forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the web hosting environment requirements, you should ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it's not that difficult to install it if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server due to the fact that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every Linux web hosting package that we offer and you are able to enable it at any time with only a few clicks, so you can work with script applications which require it. You can do that from the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to enable or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect in a minute, therefore you can proceed and set up the application that you'd like right away. The very same section allows you to switch the PHP release that is active for your account, as we support multiple releases on our leading-edge cloud platform. If you move to a version that you haven't used so far, you will have to enable ionCube Loader again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder to set a PHP version different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.