IonCube
What is IonCube? How exactly does IonCube work and when do you really need it for your PHP applications?
In order to prevent the reverse engineering of script apps, a lot of developers encrypt their code with tools like ionCube PHP Encoder and make it human unreadable. The aforementioned is valid for paid apps in particular, because anybody would be able to use and change the unencrypted code without having to pay the needed license fees. When you buy web software encrypted with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without a problem as long as a software tool named ionCube Loader is present on the hosting server. This loader enables you to execute encoded files and you will often find it as one of the prerequisites for a certain script app to be set up. As the encoded files are already precompiled, they're normally executed quicker and this can raise the general speed of your site.
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IonCube in Shared Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with every single
shared hosting service that we provide and you're able to activate it anytime with just a couple of clicks, so you can take advantage of script applications that need it. You'll be able to do this from the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to enable or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change will take effect in a minute, which means that you are able to proceed and install the application that you would like without delay. The same section allows you to switch the PHP version that is active for your account, as we support a variety of versions on our leading-edge cloud platform. If you switch to a version that you have not used to date, you will need to enable ionCube Loader once again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder in order to set a PHP version different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.
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IonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers
IonCube Loader is available with all of the
semi-dedicated hosting service that we provide, so you will not encounter any problems if you'd like to install and use a script app which requires the software tool to function appropriately. Enabling it is as simple as clicking a single button inside the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all the semi-dedicated accounts and the change shall take effect in a minute, so you will be able to proceed with the application set up without any delays. For the reason that we employ a revolutionary custom platform and we support a number of versions of PHP at the same time, you'll have to enable ionCube any time you switch to a version that you haven't used before. You will also have the option to activate ionCube loader or even to set a PHP release different from the one in the account as a whole by creating a php.ini file in a separate domain or subdomain folder and adding a couple of lines of code in it.