To avoid the reverse engineering of script apps, numerous developers encrypt their code with instruments such as ionCube PHP Encoder to make it human unreadable. The aforementioned is valid for paid apps in particular, as anybody could possibly use and modify the unprotected code without paying the necessary license fees. In case you acquire web software encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, you can use it without a problem as long as an instrument known as ionCube Loader is a part of the website hosting server. This loader enables you to execute encrypted files and you'll often see it as one of the prerequisites for a certain script app to be installed. Since the encrypted files are already precompiled, they are normally executed much faster and this will improve the overall speed of your site.

IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all the cloud website hosting plans which we supply, so every time you require it to set up and execute a script application which needs it, you can activate it with a click from the Advanced section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Since you are able to switch the PHP version that is active for your account from the same section, you will need to activate the tool for any new version that you set. If you are more experienced, you're able to take advantage of 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 operate both new and older script applications for multiple websites inside the same account - something that you cannot do with numerous other hosting service providers on the market.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

IonCube Loader is provided with all semi-dedicated services that we offer, so you will not experience any kind of problems in case you would like to install and work with some script application which requires the software instrument in order to operate properly. Activating it is as simple as clicking a button in 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, so you will be able to proceed with the application set up without any delays. As we use a revolutionary custom-built platform and we support a number of versions of PHP at the same time, you'll need to enable ionCube every time you switch to a version that you have not used before. In addition, you'll have the option to activate 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 few lines of code inside it.