Zend Optimizer is a software instrument, which is required to run files encrypted with Zend Guard - a widespread application which is used to encode PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 files with the purpose to protect them from tampering with the program code or reverse engineering. Zend Guard is used by a great number of organizations which develop paid script apps, so when you get such an app for your website, you will probably need Zend Optimizer to be available on the server where you will host it. If you're a programmer, you can use Zend Guard to secure your program code and make sure that your site visitors or customers won't be able to change it in whatever way. Websites that use Zend Optimizer often perform much better as their PHP code is precompiled, so it is already optimized and will be executed quicker.

Zend Optimizer in Web Hosting

Zend Optimizer is set up on all servers that are a part of our advanced cloud website hosting platform. No matter which Linux web hosting package you pick, you will be able to take advantage of the software instrument so that any script app that requires it will function flawlessly as part of your account. Using a convenient instrument in the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all of the website hosting accounts, you can activate and deactivate various options with a single button. Zend Optimizer will be one of these, so even if this happens to be your first hosting account ever, you won't encounter any issues. In the very same section you can also choose the PHP version for your account - 4 and several versions of 5, thus whenever you switch to one that you have not used yet, you can activate Zend Optimizer for it with just a click. Since our platform allows you to use a couple of PHP versions at the same time, more advanced users can activate the instrument for a specific site with a php.ini file in a specific domain folder as well.

Zend Optimizer in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can activate Zend Optimizer with each and every semi-dedicated server that we offer and it will take you only a couple of clicks to do that. When you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, you should go to the PHP Configuration section where you can find a variety of options and On/Off buttons for each one of them. Zend is one of these options, so you don't need to do anything more complicated than clicking on its button. Because you can also change the PHP release for your account from the same section, you will have to activate Zend for any new version that you use. Of course, we have also left the option for more experienced users to set both the PHP version as well as 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 in general.