IonCube Loader is a tool, that's needed to run files that are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application designed to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and illegal use. Various script-driven apps, especially online forums, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you purchase a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the hosting environment requirements, you should make sure that your hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Although it is not that difficult to install it if you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server for the reason that the PHP environment should be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Cloud Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all the web servers that are part of our cloud hosting platform, which means that regardless of the Linux cloud package that you pick during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it from your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as simple as clicking an On/Off button inside the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first web hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complex. The very same section enables you to choose 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 in case you decide to move to a different version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Due to the fact that our platform is rather flexible, you may even set another PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. If this is something you'd like to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 support team shall help you within minutes.