In the last few days, we are struggling to solve Ioncube loader problems, on systems that were upgraded to PHP 5.26.

From what it looks up till now, (we are really in the middle of the work) , a php.ini with extension that points to the loader might solve some cases, but if you use redirection for SEF with Joomla it conflicts with the php redirection (on hosts like DreamHost).

We will update when we find solution.