Zend Optimizer

Zend Optimizer is a handy tool which could raise the functionality your PHP applications. Find out why and how you can enable it.

Zend Optimizer is an instrument, that's needed to execute files encoded with Zend Guard - a popular app that is employed to encode PHP 4 and PHP 5 files with the objective to protect them from tampering with the code or reverse engineering. Zend Guard is used by many organizations which make paid script apps, so if you buy such an app for your website, you will probably need Zend Optimizer to be present on the server where you'll host it. If you're a programmer, you can also use Zend Guard to shield your code and ensure that your website visitors or clients will be unable to alter it in any way. Sites that use Zend Optimizer ordinarily perform better as their PHP code is precompiled, thus it's already optimized and will be executed a lot quicker.

Zend Optimizer in Website Hosting

Zend Optimizer can be found on our custom-built cloud platform and you're able to use it whatever the website hosting package that you select. It can be activated through the Hepsia Control Panel that is provided with all accounts and it will take you as little as a few clicks to do this. Due to the fact that we support numerous versions of PHP (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5), you will need to activate Zend Optimizer each time you switch the version to one you have not used yet. This is really easy though - the php.ini file where you can enable and disable various PHP extensions can be managed with a point-and-click tool, therefore you won't need any kind of programming skills or previous expertise. Our web hosting services will allow you to run any script-driven application that needs Zend Optimizer without any difficulties, but in case you're unsure what you should do, you're able to get in touch with our 24/7 tech support crew and they can enable the tool for you.

Zend Optimizer in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Zend Optimizer is available on all servers that comprise our cluster web hosting platform, which means that you will be able to use it for your script-driven apps with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. It is available all of the time even if you change the PHP version for your account because our feature-rich platform will allow you to choose from PHP 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. Both changing your version and activating Zend Optimizer for the new one takes just a couple of clicks in the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel that is used to take care of the semi-dedicated accounts. In addition, you may also use a different version of PHP and enable or disable Zend for every single domain that you host in the account. You can do this by using a php.ini file in a domain folder with just a few lines of code inside it. If you do not have previous experience and you aren't sure how to do that, our 24/7 technical support can help you.