IonCube
Find out what IonCube is and also why it’s installed on pretty much every server running PHP nowadays.
A lot of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encode their files in order to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you obtain a paid script and you want to install it in a web hosting account, a tool called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without having it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow manage to do that, it won't function appropriately because most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a fresh web hosting account and you wish to employ some paid web app. If you buy a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added because the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with every single web hosting plan that we offer and you are able to enable it at any time with only a few clicks, so you will be able to use script applications which require it. You're able to do this through the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to enable or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change will take effect within a minute, so you can proceed and install the app that you would like right away. The exact same section allows you to change the PHP version which is active for your account, because we support numerous releases on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform. In case you move to a version that you haven't used to date, you'll have to activate ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.