Plenty of script-driven applications, especially paid content management systems, encode their files so as to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you get a paid script and you wish to install it in a web hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader needs to be present on the server. Without it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it won't work efficiently as almost all of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is present if you get a fresh hosting account and you want to take advantage of some paid web app. If you obtain a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added as your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Web Hosting
When you purchase a Linux web hosting package through our company, it will be set up on our custom-made cloud hosting platform where ionCube Loader is already installed, so you will not have any problems to run any script application which needs the instrument in order to function properly. Furthermore, we supply several different versions of PHP, so if you change the version, you'll need to activate ionCube again. Our system remembers the changes you make, and if you move back to the earlier release of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be enabled. Both the PHP version as well as the ionCube tool can be managed through the PHP Configuration area of our Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. Any adjustment that you do takes literally just a click and it'll take effect without delay.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting
IonCube Loader is available with all of the semi-dedicated hosting packages that we supply, which means that you will not experience any problems in case you would like to install and work with a script application that requires the software instrument to operate properly. Activating it is as simple as clicking a single button inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, so you are able to move forward with the app set up without any delays. Because we use an avant-garde in-house built platform and we support many different versions of PHP at the same time, you'll have to enable ionCube any time you switch to a version that you have not used before. In addition, you'll have the option to enable ionCube loader and even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of program code inside it.