The ionCube Loader is a PHP extension often used by setups such as WHMCS - it decodes PHP scripts that have been encoded by the ionCube PHP Encoder. Without this, the scripts cannot be read and so the sites that use them cannot run, so it’s important to know what areas of our hosting have this included.
The availability of ionCube can differ between our different platforms and PHP versions.
Cloud Hosting: ionCube Loader is available on our Cloud platform for all currently supported PHP versions (but see note below).
WordPress Hosting: ionCube Loader is available on our WordPress platform for all available PHP versions that support it.
Note: ionCube Loader’s development skipped PHP 8.0 as outlined in their blog post here. As such, it is not available on this version, but is available on PHP 8.1 instead.
Windows Hosting: ionCube is not available on our Windows platform. If you are running PHP software and don't need any of the Windows specific-languages like ASP.NET we recommend using our Linux platform.
Cloud Servers: ionCube Loader is available on all supported PHP versions similar to our Cloud hosting.
