To avoid the reverse engineering of script applications, numerous developers encrypt their program code with instruments like ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid applications in particular, because anyone could possibly use and modify the unprotected code without having to pay the needed license fees. In case you acquire web software encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without a problem as long as a software tool named ionCube Loader is available on the web hosting server. This loader allows you to execute encoded files and you'll often notice it among the prerequisites for a given script app to be installed. Because the encrypted files are already precompiled, they're normally executed a lot faster and this can increase the general speed of your site.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all website hosting packages which we provide, so when you need it in order to set up and run some script application which needs it, you can enable it with a click from the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Since you'll be able to change the PHP version that is active for your account in the same section, you need to enable the tool for each new version which you set. When you are more experienced, you'll 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 this particular site only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you'll be able to operate both new and older script applications for multiple websites in the same account - something that you will not be able to do with numerous other web hosting service providers available on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

IonCube Loader is provided with all Linux semi-dedicated plans that we provide, which means that you will not encounter any kind of problems in case you would like to set up and use some script app which requires the instrument so as to operate properly. Activating it is as simple as clicking a 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 less than a minute, which means that you are able to move forward with the app installation without any delays. For the reason that we employ an innovative custom-built platform and we support many different versions of PHP at the same time, you will 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 activate ionCube loader and even to set a PHP version different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of code inside it.