Zend Optimizer is a software tool, that is needed to run files encrypted with Zend Guard - a widespread app that is employed to encrypt PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 files with the objective to protect them from tampering with the program code or reverse engineering. Zend Guard is used by a large number of organizations which develop paid script apps, so in case you acquire such an app for your site, you'll most likely need Zend Optimizer to be available on the server where you will host it. If you are a programmer, you can use Zend Guard to secure your code and make sure that your site visitors or clients will be unable to alter it in any way. Websites which use Zend Optimizer ordinarily perform better owing to the fact that their PHP code is precompiled, therefore it's already optimized and will be executed quicker.

Zend Optimizer in Shared Website Hosting

Zend Optimizer comes with all the servers which are part of our modern cloud hosting platform. Regardless of which shared website hosting you obtain, you can activate the software tool so that any script application that needs it will operate perfectly as part of your account. Using a convenient instrument in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel that is provided with all the website hosting accounts, you will be able to activate and deactivate various settings with a single button. Zend Optimizer will be one of them, so even if this happens to be your very first web hosting account ever, you will not encounter any difficulties. In the same section you can also choose the PHP release for your account - 4 and numerous versions of 5, therefore whenever you change to one that you haven't used yet, you can activate Zend Optimizer for it with a click. Since our platform enables you to use a couple of PHP versions at once, more experienced users can enable the tool for an individual site with a php.ini file in a specific domain folder as well.

Zend Optimizer in Semi-dedicated Servers

Zend Optimizer is available on all of the servers that comprise our cluster web hosting platform, which means that you're able to use it for all of your script-driven applications with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. It'll 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 the version and activating Zend Optimizer for the new one takes a few clicks in the PHP Configuration area of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage the semi-dedicated accounts. What is more, you may even use a different release of PHP and enable or disable Zend for each individual domain that you host in your account. This is possible by using a php.ini file in a domain folder with just a couple of lines of program code inside it. In case you don't have previous experience and you are not sure how to do that, our 24/7 support can help you.