IonCube
Find out what IonCube is and why it’s installed on nearly every server running PHP nowadays.
IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that's necessary to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an application employed to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and unauthorized usage. Lots of script-driven applications, particularly discussion boards, cms and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the hosting environment prerequisites, you have to make sure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it's not that difficult to set it up when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server will be affected.
IonCube in Shared Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each shared web hosting that we offer and you're able to activate it anytime with just a couple of clicks, so you'll be able to use script apps that require it. You are able to do this from the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to enable or disable ionCube is to click a single button. The change will take effect within a minute, so you're able to proceed and install the app that you need right away. The same section allows you to switch the PHP release which is active for your account, as we support numerous releases on our advanced cloud platform. If you move to a version that you have never used so far, you will need to activate ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
