IonCube Loader is an instrument, that is required to run files which are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized usage. Many script-driven applications, especially discussion boards, content management systems and electronic commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, so if you buy a script and you notice that ionCube is among the web hosting environment prerequisites, you should make sure that your website hosting server has the tool pre-installed. Though it's not that difficult to install it when you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server because the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with every single hosting plan that we supply and you're able to activate it anytime with only a couple of clicks, so you will be able to use script apps that require it. You can do this from the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it will take to enable or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect within a minute, so you are able to go ahead and install the application that you need right away. The very same section allows you to change the PHP release that's active for your account, because we support several releases on our leading-edge cloud platform. If you move to a release that you have never used to date, you'll need to activate ionCube Loader once again. Experienced users can use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder so as to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.