To prevent the reverse engineering of script applications, a number of developers encode their program code with tools like ionCube PHP Encoder to make it human unreadable. This is valid for paid applications in particular, because anyone would be able to use and change the unprotected code without paying the needed license fees. If you purchase web software encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without a problem as long as a software tool called ionCube Loader is installed on the hosting server. This loader allows you to execute encrypted files and you'll often notice it on the list of prerequisites for a particular script app to be installed. Since the encrypted files are already precompiled, they're normally executed a lot faster and this will raise the general speed of your website.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all shared website hosting plans that we provide, so any time you require it in order to install and execute some script app which requires it, you can activate it with a click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. As you're able to change the PHP release that is active for your account in the same section, you'll need to enable the tool for every new version that you set. In case you are more experienced, you're able to employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular website only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you're able to operate both new and older script apps for multiple sites inside the same account - a thing that you won't be able to do with numerous other web hosting providers out there.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you'll be able to use any script app that requires the software tool in order to work efficiently. With several clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you're able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. As we support a couple of releases of PHP at the same time, you will need to do this every time you switch to a new release, and if you revert back to a release which you have already used, our system will remember your choice and ionCube Loader will already be activated. When you have a couple of sites in the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you'll be able to set up a php.ini file in each domain folder and with several lines of code you're able to define both the PHP version plus the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the website hosting account altogether.