In this article, we will show you how to install ionCube loader on a Debian 9 server. ionCube PHP encoder is the most popular PHP solution for licensing and encoding PHP files and encrypting any other file types. When using ionCube, PHP scripts are first compiled and then optimized. This prevents others from copying your source code and increases the website loading speed. ionCube loader is a PHP extension that is used to execute the encoded PHP files, encrypt or decrypt non-PHP files and validate licenses.
IonCube is a PHP Zend encoding method used to protect and encode PHP files. In order to view encoded php files on your VPS you must have the php ioncube extension installed.