Many licensed and some free of charge script-driven applications have encrypted program code, that isn't human readable. The idea behind this is to prevent the reverse engineering as well as the not authorized usage of such applications. Among the most popular file encryption software instruments used for this purpose is named Zend Guard and it's used widely since it can be used to alter any kind of PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 code. The sole way for the encoded files to run efficiently on a web server afterwards is if an extra instrument called Zend Optimizer is available. When you want to employ any kind of paid web software requiring Zend Optimizer, you should make sure that it's installed on the server where you will host your website. In addition, sites which require the instrument will perform better since their code is already precompiled and optimized, meaning that it is executed quicker.

Zend Optimizer in Cloud Hosting

Zend Optimizer can be found on our in-house made cloud platform and you will be able to use it regardless of the cloud hosting package that you select. It can be activated from the Hepsia Control Panel that is provided with all the accounts and it will take you only a couple of clicks to do this. Given that we support numerous versions of 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), you'll need to enable Zend Optimizer each time you switch the version to one you have not used so far. This is very easy though - the php.ini file where you can activate and disable various PHP extensions can be handled with a point-and-click instrument, so you won't need any computer programming skills or previous expertise. Our hosting services allow you to run any script-driven application that requires Zend Optimizer without troubles, yet when you're unsure what to do, you will be able to get in touch with our 24/7 technical support crew and they'll enable the tool for you.

Zend Optimizer in Semi-dedicated Servers

Zend Optimizer is featured on all servers that comprise our cluster website hosting platform, so you will be able to use it for your script-driven applications with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. It'll be available all of the time even if you change the PHP release for your account because our feature-rich platform will allow you to choose between 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 the version and activating Zend Optimizer for the new one takes a couple of clicks in the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel which is used to take care of the semi-dedicated accounts. In addition, you can even employ a different version of PHP and activate or deactivate Zend for every single website that you host from your account. You can do this by using a php.ini file in a domain folder with just a couple of lines of code inside it. In case you don't have previous experience and you are unsure how to do that, our 24/7 support can assist you.