In order to prevent the reverse engineering of script apps, a lot of developers encode their code with instruments such as ionCube PHP Encoder and make it human unreadable. The aforementioned is valid for paid applications in particular, because anyone could possibly use and modify the unencrypted code without paying the necessary license fees. When you get web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without a problem as long as an instrument called ionCube Loader is present on the web hosting server. This loader makes it possible to run encoded files and you will often find it among the prerequisites for a particular script app to be set up. Because the encoded files are already precompiled, they are generally executed a lot faster and this can boost the general speed of your website.

IonCube in Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all the web servers that are a part of our cloud web hosting platform, which means that regardless of the Linux website hosting package that you select during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The exact same section allows you to choose the PHP version for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2), so if you want to switch to another version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it too. As our platform is rather flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you need to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 technical support team will assist you very quickly.