A lot of licensed and some free of charge script-driven applications have encoded program code, that is not human readable. The reasoning behind this is to prevent the reverse engineering and the unwanted usage of such apps. Among the most popular file encryption instruments used for this particular purpose is called Zend Guard and it's commonly used since it can be used to alter any kind of PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 code. The only way for the protected files to run the right way on a web server afterwards is if an additional instrument called Zend Optimizer is present. When you wish to employ any kind of paid web software which requires Zend Optimizer, you should make sure that it's set up on the server where you'll host your website. Furthermore, websites that need the instrument tend to perform better due to the fact that their program code is already precompiled and optimized, and therefore it's executed more rapidly.

Zend Optimizer in Cloud Web Hosting

Zend Optimizer comes with all the servers that are a part of our innovative cloud website hosting platform. Regardless of which cloud web hosting you acquire, you can take advantage of the tool so that any script application that requires it will function properly in your account. Using a convenient tool in the Advanced area of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with all the hosting accounts, you'll be able to activate and deactivate a variety of settings with one button. Zend Optimizer is one of them, so even if this is your first website hosting account ever, you will not encounter any troubles. In the same section you can also select the PHP version for your account - 4 and multiple versions of 5, and whenever you move to one that you haven't used yet, you can enable Zend Optimizer for it with a single click. As our platform allows you to work with a couple of PHP releases at the same time, more advanced users can activate the tool for an individual site with a php.ini file in a specific domain folder as well.