IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that is necessary to run files which are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an application which is used to make PHP code human unreadable, to protect it from reverse engineering and / or not authorized usage. A great number of script-driven applications, especially community forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, so when you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is on the list of web hosting environment prerequisites, you have to make sure that your website hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. Although it is not that hard to install it when 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 will have to be precompiled and all of the clients on the server will be affected.

IonCube in Shared Web Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all the shared web hosting packages which we provide, so any time you require it in order to install and execute some script application that requires it, you can activate it with a click in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel. Since you are able to change the PHP release that's active for your account in the same section, you'll need to activate the instrument for every new version which you set. If you are more skillful, you can take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular website only, without affecting the entire account. This way you are able to operate both new and older script apps for multiple sites inside the same account - something that you can't do with a lot of other hosting suppliers available on the market.