IonCube Loader is a software tool, which is needed to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized usage. A great number of script-driven apps, particularly discussion forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the web hosting environment requirements, you should make sure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it's not that hard to install it when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all web servers that are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, therefore irrespective of the cloud plan that you get during the signup process, you will be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you will not have to do anything complicated. The same section will allow you to pick the PHP version for your account (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), and if you want to switch to some other version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. Since our platform is flexible, you may even set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. In case this is something you wish to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 support team shall assist you quickly.