Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encrypt their files to ensure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so when you get a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a website hosting account, an instrument known as ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without having it, you cannot install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it won't work efficiently for the reason that almost all of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. In this light, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a fresh website hosting account and you want to take advantage of some paid web app. If you purchase a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added as your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all of the web hosting plans that we supply, so when you need it in order to install and run some script application that needs it, you can enable it with a click in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. As you'll be able to change the PHP release that's active for your account from the same section, you will need to enable the tool for any new version that you set. If you're more skillful, you will be able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you'll be able to operate both new and older script applications for multiple websites inside the same account - a thing that you cannot do with lots of other hosting service providers available on the market.