Numerous licensed and some free of cost script-driven applications have encrypted code, which isn't human readable. The reasoning behind this is to prevent the reverse engineering as well as the unwanted usage of such apps. Among the most popular encryption software instruments used for this specific purpose is called Zend Guard and it's used widely because it can be used to alter any kind of PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 code. The only way for the encoded files to work efficiently on a web server afterwards is if a second instrument called Zend Optimizer is present. If you would like to use any type of paid web software that requires Zend Optimizer, you need to make sure that it is set up on the server where you'll host your website. In addition, websites that need the instrument usually perform better since their code is already precompiled and optimized, which means that it's executed quicker.

Zend Optimizer in Cloud Web Hosting

Zend Optimizer is installed on all the servers which are part of our innovative cloud hosting platform. No matter which cloud web hosting service you choose, you'll be able to take advantage of the tool to ensure that any kind of script application which requires it will operate perfectly as part of your account. Using a convenient tool in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all of the hosting accounts, you can activate and deactivate a variety of settings with a button. Zend Optimizer will be one of these, so even if this happens to be your first website hosting account ever, you won't experience any problems. In the exact same section you can also choose the PHP release for your account - 4 and numerous versions of 5, and whenever you move to one that you haven't used yet, you can activate Zend Optimizer for it with a click. Since our platform allows you to use multiple PHP versions at once, more advanced users can activate the instrument for a particular website with a php.ini file in a specific domain folder as well.

Zend Optimizer in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are able to activate Zend Optimizer with every single semi-dedicated server that we offer and it takes just a couple of clicks to do this. When you sign in to your Hepsia Control Panel, you should head to the PHP Configuration section where you'll find various options and On/Off buttons for all of them. Zend is among these options, which means that you won't need to do anything more complicated than clicking on its button. Because you can also change the PHP version for your account through the very same section, you will need to enable Zend for any new version that you use. Furthermore, we've also left the option for more knowledgeable users to set the PHP version and the status of Zend Optimizer manually by putting a php.ini file in a specific domain folder. The file will have effect only for this specific website, but not for the website hosting account as a whole.