Today we will show you, how to install ionCube on Ubuntu 16.04. ionCube is a PHP encoder which is being used to convert readable source code written in PHP to bytecode making it unreadable to other users. It improves the security and speed of scripts written in PHP. To be able to run ionCube encoded and secured PHP scripts, you need to have ionCube Loader installed on your Linux Cloud VPS. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install ionCube Loaders on Ubuntu 16.04.