Zend Optimizer is a tool, which is required to execute files encrypted with Zend Guard - a well-known app that is used 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 a large number of corporations that make paid script applications, so if you get such an application for your website, you will most likely need Zend Optimizer to be available on the server where you'll host it. In case you are a programmer, you may also use Zend Guard to shield your program code and ensure that your website visitors or customers won't be able to change it in whatever way. Sites which use Zend Optimizer often perform much better as their PHP code is precompiled, so it's already optimized and will be executed a lot quicker.

Zend Optimizer in Shared Website Hosting

If you buy a shared website hosting plan through us, you're able to choose the PHP release, which will be active for your account according to what your script apps need. You can activate Zend Optimizer with a single click in the Advanced area of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel for all of the releases that we offer - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. When you go to this section, you're able to take advantage of a compact software tool that will allow you to handle the php.ini file for your account and enable or disable PHP extensions with On and Off buttons, which means that you won't need any previous experience because enabling Zend Optimizer is as easy as clicking a button. More experienced users can do the same thing by adding a php.ini file with the required code in a specific domain folder. If you need any help to activate the tool, you'll be able to contact our technical support crew anytime.

Zend Optimizer in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can enable Zend Optimizer with each semi-dedicated server that we supply and it takes just a couple of clicks to do this. After you log in to your Hepsia Control Panel, you should visit the PHP Configuration section where you'll find various options and On/Off buttons for each of them. Zend is one of these options, so you will not need to do anything more difficult than clicking on its button. Since you can also change the PHP version for your account from the same section, you will have to enable Zend for any new version which you use. Of course, we've also left the option for more experienced users to set both the PHP version and the status of Zend Optimizer manually by putting a php.ini file in a specific domain folder. The file will have effect only for this particular website, but not for the web hosting account in general.