Plenty of script-driven applications, particularly paid cms, encode their files in order to make sure that they will not be reverse engineered or tampered with. The majority of them use an app named ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you obtain a paid script and you want to install it in a hosting account, a software instrument called ionCube Loader must be present on the server. Without this, you can't install the script or in case you somehow manage to do this, it won't work effectively due to the fact that almost all of the script code will be encoded to a degree where it can't be interpreted. That is why, you should make sure that ionCube Loader is set up when you get a new web hosting account and you wish to use some paid web app. If you acquire a shared website hosting account and the tool is not present, it can't be added since your entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Hosting
IonCube Loader is available with all the hosting packages which we provide, so every time you require it to set up and run a script app that needs it, you can enable it with a click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. Due to the fact that you'll be able to change the PHP version that's active for your account in the same section, you will have to enable the tool for every new version that you set. If you're more skillful, you are able to employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for that particular website only, without affecting the entire account. In this way you'll be able to operate both new and older script applications for multiple websites in the same account - something that you can't do with various other web hosting service providers out there.