Lots of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encrypt their files to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an app known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so if you buy a paid script and you wish to install it in a website hosting account, a tool known as ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without it, you won't be able to install the script or if you somehow find a way to do that, it will not operate efficiently since most of the script code will be encrypted to a point where it can't be interpreted. That's why, you need to ensure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a new web hosting account and you want to use some paid web app. If you buy a shared web hosting account and the instrument is not present, it can't be added as the whole server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Shared Web Hosting
IonCube Loader is supplied with every single shared web hosting that we provide and you will be able to activate it at any time with just a couple of clicks, so you will be able to work with script applications that need it. You are able to do that through the PHP Configuration section of your Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to activate or deactivate ionCube is to click a single button. The change takes effect in a minute, so you will be able to go ahead and install the application that you would like right away. The same section allows you to change the PHP release that is active for your account, because we support multiple releases on our hi-tech cloud hosting platform. If you switch to a version that you've never used to date, you will need to enable ionCube Loader again. More advanced users will be able to use a php.ini file in a specific domain folder so as to set a PHP version different from the one for the entire account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.