A lot of script-driven apps, especially paid cms, encode their files in order to make sure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Many of them use an application known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do that, so, in case you obtain a paid script and you wish to install it in a web hosting account, a software instrument known as ionCube Loader has to be present on the server. Without having it, you can't install the script or if you somehow manage to do this, it will not work effectively as most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it cannot be interpreted. That's why, you should make sure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a new web hosting account and you'd like to use some paid web app. If you buy a shared hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added since the entire server PHP environment will have to be compiled again.
IonCube in Shared Website Hosting
IonCube Loader is available with all of the shared website hosting packages that we provide, so when you require it to set up and execute a script app that requires it, you can activate it with a single click in the Advanced section of your Hepsia Control Panel. Because you'll be able to change the PHP version that is active for your account in the same section, you will need to enable the instrument for each new version which you set. When you're more experienced, you'll be able to employ a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you can operate both new and older script apps for multiple sites in the same account - a thing that you won't be able to do with many other website hosting providers available on the market.