Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files so as to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so if you get a paid script and you wish to set it up in a website hosting account, an instrument known as ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without having it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do this, it won't work appropriately as most of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you need to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed when you get a fresh hosting account and you'd like to use some paid web application. If you get a shared website hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added because the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is available on all of the web servers that are part of our cloud hosting platform, therefore regardless of the cloud hosting plan that you get during the signup process, you will be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first web hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complex. The same section allows you to pick the PHP release for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5), and in case you want to move to another version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is rather flexible, you can set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you would like to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 support team shall assist you very quickly.