IonCube Loader is a tool, that's needed to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized usage. Many script-driven apps, in particular online forums, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you buy a script and you find that ionCube is on the list of hosting environment prerequisites, you should ensure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. While it is not that difficult to install it when you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment will have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux cloud website hosting package that we provide and you can activate it at any time with only a couple of clicks, so you can take advantage of script applications that need it. You're able to do this from the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect within a minute, which means that you can proceed and set up the application that you'd like right away. The same section will allow you to change the PHP version which is active for your account, because we support several versions on our advanced cloud platform. In case you switch to a version that you've never used so far, you will need to activate ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder so as to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.