Zend Optimizer
What exactly is Zend Optimizer? How can it affect the overall performance of a PHP application?
Zend Optimizer is a tool, which is required to run files encoded with Zend Guard - a widespread application that is employed to encode PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 files with the idea to protect them from tampering with the code or reverse engineering. Zend Guard is used by many organizations that develop paid script applications, so in case you acquire such an app for your site, you'll most likely need Zend Optimizer to be available on the server where you will host it. In case you are a programmer, you can use Zend Guard to secure your code and ensure that your site visitors or clients will be unable to alter it in any way. Websites which use Zend Optimizer ordinarily perform much better as their PHP code is precompiled, thus it's already optimized and will be executed quicker.
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Zend Optimizer in Cloud Hosting
Zend Optimizer can be found on our in-house made cloud platform and you can use it whatever the
cloud hosting plan that you choose. It can be activated through the Hepsia Control Panel which comes with all accounts and it'll take you as little as a few clicks to do this. Due to the fact that we support many different versions of PHP (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2), you will have to activate Zend Optimizer every time you change the version to one you haven't used so far. This is very easy though - the php.ini file where you can activate and disable various PHP extensions can be managed with a point-and-click software tool, therefore you will not need any computer programming skills or previous practical experience. Our website hosting services will allow you to run any script-driven app that requires Zend Optimizer without any troubles, yet in case you are unsure what you should do, you are able to get in touch with our 24/7 tech support crew and they'll enable the tool for you.
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Zend Optimizer in Semi-dedicated Servers
We have installed Zend Optimizer on all of the servers which are part of our hi-tech cloud hosting platform and considering that all
semi-dedicated server accounts are created on it, you'll be able to activate and use Zend for any kind of script app that you want to use with just a single click. You may also choose the PHP version that will be active for your account, thus if you switch to some other release, you just have to go to the Advanced section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and click on the On button for Zend Optimizer - it is as easy as that. In case you switch the version back, Zend will already be active. More experienced users will also have the opportunity to set the PHP version and to activate Zend Optimizer only for a single site by putting a php.ini file with the needed program code in the corresponding domain folder.