To prevent the reverse engineering of script applications, a lot of developers encode their program code with instruments like ionCube PHP Encoder to make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid applications in particular, since anyone would be able to use and change the unencrypted code without having to pay the needed license fees. If you buy web software encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, you can use it without a problem as long as a software instrument known as ionCube Loader is installed on the web hosting server. This loader allows you to execute encrypted files and you'll often see it on the list of prerequisites for a certain script application to be installed. Since the encrypted files are already precompiled, they are ordinarily executed a lot faster and this can improve the general speed of your website.
IonCube in Cloud Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with every single cloud hosting service that we offer and you are able to activate it anytime with only a few clicks, so you'll be able to use script applications which need it. You'll be able to do that from the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect in a minute, so you can proceed and install the application that you need right away. The exact same section allows you to change the PHP version that is active for your account, as we support several releases on our state-of-the-art cloud platform. If you switch to a version that you have never used so far, you will need to activate ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you can use any kind of script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader since the tool is available on all the servers which are part of our innovative cloud hosting platform. We also support various releases of PHP, and 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 only a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your decision, so in case you move back to the previous release of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also provide the option to choose the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain name without altering the settings for the entire hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file within a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.