To stop the reverse engineering of script applications, many developers encode their code with tools like ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid applications in particular, as anybody would be able to use and modify the unencrypted code without paying the required license fees. In case you get web software encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without a problem as long as an instrument named ionCube Loader is available on the website hosting server. This loader makes it possible to execute encrypted files and you will often see it as one of the prerequisites for a particular script app to be installed. Because the encoded files are already precompiled, they are normally executed quicker and this can enhance the overall speed of your site.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you buy a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you'll be able to employ any script-driven application that requires ionCube Loader since the software tool is installed on all of the servers that are part of our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform. Furthermore, we support several releases of PHP, and if you move 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 example, you can activate ionCube for that particular release with just a click in your Hepsia Control Panel. Our system will remember your choice, so if you switch back to the previous version of PHP, the software instrument will already be active. For more tech-savvy users, we also offer the option to choose the PHP version and if ionCube will be active or not for a specific domain name without altering the settings for the whole website hosting account. This is done by placing a php.ini file within a domain folder with a couple of lines of code.