Lots of licensed and some free script-driven applications have encoded code, that is not human readable. The reasoning behind this is to prevent the reverse engineering and the illegal usage of such apps. Among the most popular file encryption software tools used for this particular purpose is named Zend Guard and it's used widely as it can be used to modify any kind of PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 code. The only way for the encrypted files to work effectively on a web server afterwards is when another tool called Zend Optimizer is present. In the event that you wish to work with any type of paid web software which needs Zend Optimizer, you need to make sure that it's installed on the server where you'll host your site. Also, sites that need the tool will perform better as their program code is already precompiled and optimized, and therefore it's executed faster.

Zend Optimizer in Hosting

When you acquire a hosting through our company, you are able to pick the PHP version, that will be active for the account according to what your script apps need. You can activate Zend Optimizer with just a single click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel for all of the releases that we offer - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. Once you go to this section, you can employ a small tool which will allow you to control the php.ini file for your account and activate or deactivate PHP extensions with On and Off buttons, so you will not need any previous knowledge considering that activating Zend Optimizer will be as simple as clicking a button. More experienced users can do the same by placing a php.ini file with the necessary code in a specific domain folder. In case you need any assistance to activate the tool, you can contact our technical support team at any time.

Zend Optimizer in Semi-dedicated Servers

Zend Optimizer is featured on all servers that comprise our cluster website hosting platform, so you are able to use it for all of your script-driven applications with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. It will be available all the time even if you switch the PHP version for your account since our feature-rich platform will allow you to select from PHP 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2. Both changing your version and activating Zend Optimizer for the new one takes a couple of clicks in the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel which is used to manage the semi-dedicated accounts. In addition, you can even employ a different release of PHP and enable or disable Zend for every single domain that you host from your account. You can do this by employing a php.ini file in a domain folder with a couple of lines of program code inside it. If you don't have previous experience and you are unsure how to do that, our 24/7 technical support will assist.