A lot of script-driven applications, particularly paid content management systems, encrypt their files so as to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you obtain a paid script and you'd like to set it up in a website hosting account, a software tool called ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without having it, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it won't operate efficiently for the reason that most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you should ensure that ionCube Loader is set up if you get a fresh web hosting account and you wish to use some paid web app. If you get a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added because your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each and every Linux shared hosting package that we provide and you're able to activate it anytime with only a few clicks, so you can employ script apps which require it. You can do that through the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect within a minute, therefore you are able to go ahead and install the app that you'd like without delay. The same section will allow you to change the PHP version that's active for your account, because we support a variety of releases on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform. If you switch to a release that you have never used so far, you'll need to activate ionCube Loader again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.