To stop the reverse engineering of script apps, a number of developers encrypt their code with instruments like ionCube PHP Encoder to make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid applications in particular, since anyone could possibly use and modify the unprotected code without having to pay the required license fees. If you obtain web software encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without a problem as long as a software tool called ionCube Loader is present on the website hosting server. This loader allows you to execute encrypted files and you will often see it as one of the prerequisites for a given script application to be installed. As the encrypted files are already precompiled, they're usually executed more rapidly and this will raise the overall speed of your site.
IonCube in Shared Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with each shared web hosting that we offer and you'll be able to enable it at any time with only a couple of clicks, so you'll be able to take advantage of script apps that need it. You can do that through the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect in a minute, which means that you're able to go ahead and install the application that you need right away. The very same section will allow you to change the PHP version which is active for your account, as we support numerous versions on our leading-edge cloud platform. In case you move to a release that you have never used to date, you'll have to enable ionCube Loader again. More advanced 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 entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you purchase a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you'll be able to use any kind of script-driven application which needs ionCube Loader as the tool comes with all of the servers that are part of our modern cloud website hosting platform. Furthermore, we support multiple releases of PHP, so if you switch from PHP 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, for instance, you can activate ionCube for that particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, and in case you move back to the earlier release of PHP, the tool will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to pick the PHP version and whether ionCube will be active or not for a particular domain without altering the settings for the whole website hosting account. This can be done by putting a php.ini file in a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.