Plenty of script-driven apps, especially paid content management systems, encode their files so as to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an application named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you get a paid script and you intend to install it in a web hosting account, a software tool known as ionCube Loader has to be present on your server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do this, it will not function efficiently for the reason that most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That is why, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a new hosting account and you'd like to take advantage of some paid web app. If you obtain a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it cannot be added since the whole server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is provided with all the shared hosting packages that we offer, so when you require it in order to install and run some script application which requires it, you can enable it with a single click from the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. Because you're able to switch the PHP release which is active for your account in the same section, you will have to activate the tool for any new version that you set. In case you are more experienced, you are able to take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular website only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you are able to manage both new and older script applications for multiple websites inside the same account - something that you can't do with various other website hosting providers out there.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
IonCube Loader is provided with all of the semi-dedicated servers that we offer, and you won't encounter any kind of problems in case you would like to set up and use a script app that requires the tool so as to function appropriately. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a single button in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all of the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in a minute, therefore you will be able to move forward with the app installation without any delays. As we employ a revolutionary tailor-made platform and we support multiple versions of PHP at the same time, you'll have to enable ionCube any time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. In addition, you'll have the option to enable ionCube loader or even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by making a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a few lines of code in it.