To stop the reverse engineering of script applications, many developers encode their code with instruments such as ionCube PHP Encoder to make it human unreadable. This is valid for paid apps in particular, since anyone would be able to use and change the unencrypted code without having to pay the required license fees. In case you buy web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you can use it without a problem as long as an instrument called ionCube Loader is available on the web hosting server. This loader allows you to run encrypted files and you will often see it on the list of prerequisites for a given script application to be set up. As the encoded files are already precompiled, they're normally executed a lot quicker and this can improve the general speed of your site.
IonCube in Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is installed on all the web servers that are part of our cloud hosting platform, which means that whatever the Linux website hosting that you pick during the signup process, you can enable it through your Hepsia Control Panel. The process is as easy as right-clicking an On/Off button from the Advanced section, so even if this is your first web hosting account ever, you will not need to do anything complex. The very same section will allow you to select the PHP release 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), and if you choose to switch to a different version, you just need to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is quite flexible, you may even set a different PHP version and a different status of ionCube using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you'd like to do but you do not have much experience, the 24/7 support team will be able to assist you quickly.