IonCube

What is IonCube? Why is it present on nearly every present-day hosting server running PHP?

IonCube Loader is an instrument, that's required to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal use. A great number of script-driven applications, especially community forums, cms and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is on the list of hosting environment requirements, you have to make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it is not that hard to set it up when you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server as the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.

: IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is available with all of the website hosting plans which we supply, so every time you require it in order to install and run a script application which requires it, you can activate it with a single click inside the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Because you'll be able to change the PHP release which is active for your account from the same section, you'll have to activate the tool for every new version that you set. When you're more experienced, you will be able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for that particular site only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you're able to manage both new and older script applications for multiple websites in the same account - a thing that you can't do with lots of other website hosting service providers on the market.