To stop the reverse engineering of script apps, a lot of developers encrypt their program code with tools such as ionCube PHP Encoder to make it human unreadable. The aforementioned is valid for paid applications in particular, as anyone would be able to use and change the unencrypted code without paying the required license fees. In case you get web software protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, you can use it without any problems as long as a tool called ionCube Loader is present on the hosting server. This loader allows you to run encrypted files and you'll often notice it as one of the prerequisites for a particular script application to be set up. Due to the fact that the encoded files are already precompiled, they're generally executed much faster and this can boost the general speed of your site.

IonCube in Cloud Web Hosting

IonCube Loader comes with all cloud web hosting packages which we supply, so every time you require it to set up and run some script app that needs it, you can activate it with a single click in the Advanced area of your Hepsia Control Panel. As you can change the PHP version that's active for your account in the same section, you will need to activate the tool for any new version that you set. If you're more experienced, you'll be able to use a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version and the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the entire account. Thus you're able to manage both new and older script applications for multiple sites in the same account - something that you won't be able to do with numerous other web hosting service providers out there.