To stop the reverse engineering of script apps, a number of developers encode their program code with tools such as ionCube PHP Encoder and make it human unreadable. This is valid for paid apps in particular, since anyone could possibly use and modify the unprotected code without paying the needed license fees. In case you obtain web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without a problem as long as a tool called ionCube Loader is installed on the web hosting server. This loader allows you to run encoded files and you will often find it among the prerequisites for a given script app to be set up. As the encoded files are already precompiled, they are ordinarily executed a lot faster and this can raise the overall speed of your site.
IonCube in Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is a part of all of the web servers that are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, which means that irrespective of the website hosting that you get during the signup process, you will be able to activate it from your Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The very same section will allow you to pick the PHP release 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), which means that if you decide to switch to another version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is really flexible, you can even set a different PHP version and a different status of ionCube by 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 technical support team will help you quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
Due to the fact that all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application that requires this tool so as to work effectively. With just a few clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you are able to activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for your account. Because we support multiple versions of PHP concurrently, you'll have to do that each time you move to a new release, but if you revert back to a release which you've already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. If you have a couple of websites in the same account and they need different versions of PHP, you are 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 as well as the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the website hosting account as a whole.