In order to stop the reverse engineering of script applications, a number of developers encrypt their code with instruments such as ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. The aforementioned is valid for paid apps in particular, as anybody would be able to use and modify the unencrypted code without having to pay the needed license fees. If you purchase web software encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without a problem as long as an instrument called ionCube Loader is present on the web hosting server. This loader allows you to run encrypted files and you'll often find it among the prerequisites for a particular script application to be installed. As the encoded files are already precompiled, they're usually executed a lot faster and this will raise the general speed of your website.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all shared hosting plans which we supply, so if you need it in order to install and run some script app which needs it, you can enable it with a click in the Advanced section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you can change the PHP release that is active for your account in the same section, you'll have to activate the tool for each new version that you set. If you are more skillful, you will be able to employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the entire account. This way you're able to operate both new and older script applications for multiple websites inside the same account - a thing that you will not be able to do with many other website hosting suppliers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you aquire a semi-dedicated server package from us, you'll be able to take advantage of any kind of script-driven app which needs ionCube Loader due to the fact that the software tool comes with all the servers that are a part of our innovative cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple versions of PHP, therefore if you move from PHP 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, for example, you can activate ionCube for this particular version with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so in case you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more experienced users, we also provide the option to choose the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the whole hosting account. This can be done by placing a php.ini file inside a domain folder with a few lines of program code.