To avoid the reverse engineering of script applications, many developers encrypt their code with instruments such as ionCube PHP Encoder and make it human unreadable. This is valid for paid apps in particular, because anyone could possibly use and modify the unprotected code without having to pay the needed license fees. When you purchase web software encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, you can use it without a problem as long as a tool called ionCube Loader is available on the website hosting server. This loader makes it possible to run encoded files and you will often find it on the list of prerequisites for a given script application to be set up. Since the encrypted files are already precompiled, they are normally executed a lot faster and this will raise the general speed of your site.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all web servers which are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, which means that regardless of the Linux shared website hosting package that you get during the signup process, you will be able to enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The very same section enables you to choose 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), so in case you decide to switch to a different version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it too. As our platform is very flexible, you may even set another PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you would like to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 support team shall assist you quickly.