In order to stop the reverse engineering of script apps, a lot of developers encrypt their code with tools like ionCube PHP Encoder to make it human unreadable. The aforementioned is valid for paid applications in particular, since anyone could possibly use and modify the unencrypted code without having to pay the necessary 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 instrument named ionCube Loader is present on the website hosting server. This loader allows you to run encrypted files and you'll often find it among the prerequisites for a particular script application to be set up. Due to the fact that the encrypted files are already precompiled, they're ordinarily executed more quickly and this will boost the overall speed of your site.
IonCube in Hosting
IonCube Loader is a part of all web servers that are part of our cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the hosting that you choose during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The very same section allows you to choose the PHP release 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), which means that if you decide to move to some other version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Due to the fact that our platform is quite flexible, you can set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you want to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team shall help you quickly.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
IonCube Loader is available with all of the semi-dedicated servers that we supply, which means that you won't have any kind of problems if you would like to set up and work with some script app that requires the tool so as to function properly. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a single button inside the Advanced part of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change will take effect in a minute, which means that you'll be able to proceed with the app installation without delay. Since we employ a revolutionary custom-made platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you will have to activate ionCube any time you switch to a version that you have not used before. Additionally, you have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by generating a php.ini file in an individual domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of program code within it.