A lot of licensed and some free of cost script-driven apps have encrypted program code, which isn't human readable. The idea behind this is to prevent the reverse engineering as well as the unauthorized usage of such apps. Among the most popular encryption software instruments used for this purpose is known as Zend Guard and it's widely used since it can be used to alter all PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 code. The sole way for the protected files to run efficiently on a web server subsequently is when a second instrument called Zend Optimizer is available. When you wish to use any paid web software requiring Zend Optimizer, you should make sure that it's set up on the server where you'll host your site. Also, sites which need the tool can perform better because their code is already precompiled and optimized, which means that it is executed more quickly.

Zend Optimizer in Website Hosting

Zend Optimizer is accessible on our custom cloud platform and you will be able to use it whatever the website hosting plan that you choose. It can be activated from the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the accounts and it will take you as little as a couple of clicks to do that. Given that we support a number of different 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 have to enable Zend Optimizer each time you change the version to one you haven't used yet. 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 tool, so you will not need any programming skills or previous practical experience. Our website hosting services will allow you to run any script-driven application which requires Zend Optimizer with no difficulties, yet in case you are not sure what you should do, you are able to contact our 24/7 technical support crew and they will enable the tool for you.

Zend Optimizer in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Zend Optimizer is featured on all of the servers that comprise our cluster hosting platform, so you can use it for all of your script-driven apps with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. It will be available all the time even if you switch the PHP version for your account because our feature-rich platform allows you to choose 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 the 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 that is used to control the semi-dedicated accounts. What's more, you may even use a different release of PHP and activate or deactivate Zend for each individual domain that you host in the account. You can do this by using a php.ini file in a domain folder with a couple of lines of code inside it. In case you don't have previous experience and you aren't sure how to do this, our 24/7 technical assistance can help you.