To stop the reverse engineering of script applications, a number of developers encrypt their program code with tools like ionCube PHP Encoder to make it human unreadable. This is valid for paid applications in particular, because anyone would be able to use and modify the unprotected code without having to pay the necessary license fees. When you get web software encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, you will be able to use it without any problems as long as a software tool named ionCube Loader is a part of the web hosting server. This loader allows you to execute encrypted files and you'll often see it among the prerequisites for a given script app to be set up. Because the encrypted files are already precompiled, they are usually executed a lot faster and this will increase the overall speed of your site.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with every single Linux shared hosting package that we provide and you're able to activate it at any time with only a few clicks, so you will be able to work with script apps which need it. You're able to do this through the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect in a minute, so you'll be able to proceed and set up the app that you would like without delay. The exact same section allows you to switch the PHP version that is active for your account, because we support a variety of releases on our state-of-the-art cloud platform. In case you move to a version that you have not used so far, you'll need to activate ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder to set a PHP release different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.