To avoid the reverse engineering of script apps, a lot of developers encode their code with instruments like ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid applications in particular, since anyone would be able to use and modify the unencrypted code without paying the required license fees. If you acquire web software encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without a problem as long as an instrument called ionCube Loader is present on the web hosting server. This loader allows you to execute encoded files and you will often see it on the list of prerequisites for a certain script app to be set up. As the encrypted files are already precompiled, they are usually executed quicker and this will raise the overall speed of your site.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader is installed on all web servers that are a part of our cloud hosting platform, which means that whatever the Linux cloud web hosting that you select during the signup process, you'll be able to enable it through the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as easy as clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The 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), which means that if you choose to switch to some other version, you only have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is rather flexible, you may even set a different PHP version and a different status of ionCube by employing a php.ini file in each domain folder. If this is something you want to do but you don't have much experience, the 24/7 support team shall assist you within minutes.