IonCube Loader is a tool, which is needed to run files that are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app employed to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and not authorized use. Plenty of script-driven apps, particularly community forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you get a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the hosting environment prerequisites, you should make sure that your web hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it is not that difficult to install it when you have your own server, it's almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server as the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Shared Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each shared website hosting that we offer and you will be able to enable it at any time with only a few clicks, so you will be able to use script applications that need it. You're able to do that from the PHP Configuration area of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to activate or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change takes effect in a minute, therefore you'll be able to go ahead and set up the application that you would like right away. 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 cutting-edge cloud hosting platform. If you switch to a version that you have never used to date, you will need to activate ionCube Loader again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder in order to set a PHP version different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.