(Resolved)
Here is the resolution which worked for me:
I am running on a CENTOS 6 VPS hosted at linode.com
There was no available Ioncube package through YUM for my distro, so I used the loader from Ioncube's website.
This 99% worked, however it did cause some crashes in random areas of tradepulse.
The resolution was to download the IonCube RPM for Centos 6 via pkgs.org and install that (I had to force the installation with --nodeps) because my distro must vary slightly from stock.
TL;DR: I'm up and going.