IonCube Loader is an instrument, that's necessary to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal usage. Plenty of script-driven apps, in particular online forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that if you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the hosting environment prerequisites, you should make sure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it's not that difficult to set it up when you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is available on all web servers which are a part of our cloud website hosting platform, which means that regardless of the cloud hosting that you select during the signup process, you can enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first web hosting account ever, you won't need to do anything complex. The very same section allows you to select 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), which means that in case you would like to switch to some other version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is very flexible, you can set a different PHP version and another status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you need to do but you don't have much experience, our 24/7 support team will be able to assist you within minutes.