IonCube Loader is a software instrument, that's necessary to run files which are encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder. The latter is an app that is used to make PHP code human unreadable, in order to protect it from reverse engineering or unauthorized usage. Numerous script-driven apps, in particular discussion boards, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, which means that when you get a script and you notice that ionCube is one of the website hosting environment requirements, you have to ensure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it is not that difficult to set it up when you have your own server, it is almost impossible to do that on a shared hosting server since the PHP environment should be precompiled and all of the clients on the server shall be affected.
IonCube in Shared Hosting
If you get a Linux shared hosting package from our company, it will be created on our custom-built cloud platform where ionCube Loader is already present, so you will not have any kind of problems to manage any script application which requires the instrument in order to run properly. Furthermore, we supply a few different releases of PHP, therefore in case you switch the version, you'll have to enable ionCube again. Our platform remembers the changes you make, which means that in case you move back to the previous version of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be enabled. Both the PHP version as well as the ionCube instrument can be managed from the PHP Configuration area of our Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. Any change that you make takes literally just a click and it takes effect at once.