Zend Optimizer is a tool, that's required to run files encoded with Zend Guard - a popular application which is used to encrypt PHP 4 and PHP 5 files with the idea to protect them from tampering with the program code or reverse engineering. Zend Guard is used by a great number of organizations that develop paid script applications, so in case you buy such an application for your site, you'll most likely need Zend Optimizer to be present on the server where you'll host it. If you are a programmer, you may also use Zend Guard to protect your program code and make sure that your website visitors or clients will be unable to alter it in whatever way. Websites which use Zend Optimizer usually perform much better since their PHP code is precompiled, thus it is already optimized and will be executed a lot quicker.

Zend Optimizer in Shared Hosting

When you purchase a Linux shared hosting service from us, you have the option to select the PHP version, which will be active for your account according to what your script apps require. You'll be able to activate Zend Optimizer with a single click in the Advanced section of the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel for all of the releases that we offer - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. Once you go to this section, you will be able to take advantage of a small software tool that will allow you to control the php.ini file for the account and activate or deactivate PHP extensions using On and Off buttons, which means that you won't need any kind of previous experience considering that activating Zend Optimizer will be as easy as clicking a button. More advanced users will be able to do the same thing by placing a php.ini file with the needed code in a specific domain folder. If you need any help to activate the tool, you can contact our tech support crew anytime.

Zend Optimizer in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We offer Zend Optimizer with all of our semi-dedicated hosting. It's present on our revolutionary cloud platform, so if any script-driven app which you would like to use requires it to work, you just have to enable it with a click in the Hepsia Control Panel. You will find Zend in the PHP Configuration section where you can also change the PHP version that your web hosting account uses. For each new release which you set, simply click on the On button for Zend Optimizer and you'll be all set. Hepsia will remember your choice for previously used versions of PHP, which means that you will not need to do that each and every time. In the event that you have more experience, you are able to take full advantage of the versatility of our cloud platform and use a php.ini file to set another PHP release and enable/disable Zend Optimizer for a particular domain without the need of altering the settings for the whole semi-dedicated server account.