Plenty of licensed and some free script-driven apps have encrypted program code, which isn't human readable. The idea behind this is to avoid the reverse engineering as well as the unauthorized usage of such apps. Among the most popular file encryption instruments used for this particular purpose is called Zend Guard and it's very popular as it can be used to change any PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 code. The only way for the encoded files to run effectively on a web server after that is if a second tool called Zend Optimizer is present. When you'd like to use any type of paid web software which requires Zend Optimizer, you have to make sure that it's set up on the server where you'll host your site. Furthermore, websites which require the tool usually perform better because their program code is already precompiled and optimized, and therefore it is executed faster.

Zend Optimizer in Web Hosting

Zend Optimizer is available on our custom-made cloud platform and you'll be able to use it whatever the web hosting plan that you choose. It can be activated from the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with all of the accounts and it'll take you just several clicks to do that. Since we support a number of different releases 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 will have to activate Zend Optimizer every time you change the version to one you haven't used yet. This is really easy though - the php.ini file where you can activate and disable various PHP extensions can be managed with a point-and-click software tool, so you don't need any kind of computer programming skills or previous experience. Our hosting services will allow you to run any script-driven app that requires Zend Optimizer with no difficulties, but if you're not sure what to do, you can get in touch with our 24/7 technical support crew and they'll activate the tool for you.