Numerous licensed and some free script-driven apps have protected code, which is not human readable. The reasoning behind this is to avoid the reverse engineering and the not authorized usage of such applications. Among the most popular encryption instruments used for this particular purpose is known as Zend Guard and it's commonly used since it can be used to change any PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 code. The sole way for the protected files to work correctly on a web server after that is if one more tool called Zend Optimizer is available. When you want to employ any paid web software which needs Zend Optimizer, you should make sure that it is installed on the server where you will host your website. Also, sites that need the tool can perform better as their program code is already precompiled and optimized, meaning that it's executed more rapidly.

Zend Optimizer in Shared Web Hosting

If you purchase a Linux shared web hosting package through our company, you can choose the PHP version, which will be active for the account according to what your script applications need. You'll be able to activate Zend Optimizer with just a single click in the Advanced area of the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel for any of the releases that we offer - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. When you go to this area, you are able to take advantage of a small tool which will allow you to handle the php.ini file for the account and enable or disable PHP extensions using On and Off buttons, therefore you will not need any previous experience since activating Zend Optimizer is as simple as clicking a button. More experienced users will be able to do the same thing by placing a php.ini file with the necessary program code in a particular domain folder. If you need any assistance to activate the instrument, you'll be able to contact our technical support team at any time.