Can a web host steal your script if you are hosting your site on their server. What are the best possible ways one can prevent such a thing from happening?

This is like asking if a landlord can steal their tenants' property - not that they would, but they could.

Lol @ tht landlord, him badt na guys. 

One way to prevent that from happening is to tie your script to the domain its running on and encode your scripts with Ioncube. For this to work your host's server has to have the Ioncube loader extensions enabled, this is almost certain to be installed because many scripts rely on it.

Dual Core:

Lol @ tht landlord, him badt na guys. 

One way to prevent that from happening is to tie your script to the domain its running on and encode your scripts with Ioncube. For this to work your host's server has to have the Ioncube loader extensions enabled, this is almost certain to be installed because many scripts rely on it.

Will affect your script if you later decided to move to another webhost or upgrade(from shear hosting to Dedicated server)

yawa-ti-de:

This is like asking if a landlord can steal their tenants' property - not that they would, but they could.

You are really funny.

they can do a photocopy of you site. (with no different)

they have access to your file more than you do,

deco2come:

Will affect your script if you later decided to move to another webhost or upgrade(from shear hosting to Dedicated server)

No it wont. It will work wherever you move it to as long as it is on the domain meant for it.

Further reading:
http://www.ioncube.com/

But if you write your code in the nonsense way i write mine sometimes hmmm, it can be very difficult to follow

they can. thats all, just do it like dualcore explained. gbamm, but dualcore, you still cant give me a solution on what i asked you on yahoo messenger

Hmmm, but that is not to say that ion cube is not unbreakable sha. . .but tis still berra dan nothing

EFCC™:

they can. thats all, just do it like dualcore explained. gbamm, but dualcore, you still cant give me a solution on what i asked you on yahoo messenger

I cannot give solutions to problems I cannot see. I remember asking you to mail me and I am yet to see any email from you.

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