IonCube Loader is a tool, which is required to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and / or illegal usage. A large number of script-driven apps, especially message boards, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore when you obtain a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the web hosting environment requirements, you should ensure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Though it is not that hard to set it up if you have your own server, it is close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server because the PHP environment should be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is a part of all of the web servers which are part of our cloud hosting platform, which means that regardless of the cloud website hosting that you get during the signup process, you can enable it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first website hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complicated. The very same section will allow you to pick 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 need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Since our platform is rather flexible, you can even set some other PHP version and another status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you need to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 tech support team will help you quickly.