IonCube Loader is a tool, that's required to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application designed to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering or not authorized usage. Plenty of script-driven apps, especially message boards, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you obtain a script and you find that ionCube is among the web hosting environment requirements, you need to ensure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it's not that hard to set it up when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every shared website hosting that we provide and you will be able to enable it anytime with just a couple of clicks, so you will be able to take advantage of script apps that need it. You can do that through the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it takes to activate or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect in a minute, which means that you can proceed and set up the app that you'd like without delay. The exact same section allows you to change the PHP version which is active for your account, because we support numerous releases on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform. In case you switch to a release that you have never used so far, you will need to activate ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder in order to set a PHP version different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.