To prevent the reverse engineering of script applications, a lot of developers encrypt their code with tools such as ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. This is valid for paid apps in particular, since anybody would be able to use and modify the unencrypted code without having to pay the needed license fees. In case you get web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without a problem as long as a software tool known as ionCube Loader is a part of the website hosting server. This loader allows you to run encoded files and you'll often see it as one of the prerequisites for a particular script app to be set up. Since the encrypted files are already precompiled, they are normally executed more quickly and this will increase the overall speed of your site.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is provided with all shared hosting packages that we supply, so when you require it to install and run some script application that needs it, you can activate it with a single click from the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. Since you'll be able to switch the PHP version which is active for your account in the same section, you'll have to enable the tool for any new version that you set. If you're more skillful, you are able to take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the entire account. This way you are able to manage both new and older script apps for multiple websites inside the same account - something that you will not be able to do with numerous other website hosting suppliers available on the market.
IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
Because all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you will be able to use any script application which requires this tool in order to work effectively. With just a few clicks in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel you can activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version that's currently active for the account. Since we support several releases of PHP concurrently, you will need to do this each and every time you switch to a new release, but if you revert back to a release which you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be active. If you have multiple sites inside the same account and they need different releases of PHP, you'll be able to set up a php.ini file in each and every domain folder and with a couple of lines of code you are able to define both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube regardless of what is selected for the web hosting account as a whole.