A lot of licensed and some free of cost script-driven applications have protected program code, that is not human readable. The idea behind this is to avoid the reverse engineering and the unauthorized use of such apps. Among the most popular encryption software instruments used for this purpose is called Zend Guard and it's widely used since it can be used to modify any PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 code. The only method for the encoded files to work properly on a web server subsequently is if one more instrument called Zend Optimizer is present. If you'd like to employ any kind of paid web software which needs Zend Optimizer, you need to ensure that it's installed on the server where you'll host your site. Furthermore, sites which require the instrument generally perform better as their code is already precompiled and optimized, and therefore it's executed quicker.
Zend Optimizer in Shared Hosting
All the shared hosting accounts that we offer are generated on our advanced cluster platform and Zend Optimizer is installed on all servers that are a part of the clusters. For that reason, you are able to install and execute script-driven applications which require Zend irrespective of the package that you select upon signup. The easy to navigate Hepsia Control Panel that comes with the accounts shall make the control over your online presence very easy and activating Zend Optimizer makes no exception due to the fact that it'll take just a single click to do it. Of course, more experienced users can also put a php.ini file in a particular domain folder and take advantage of Zend only for a specific domain. Since you can switch between many different PHP releases, you can enable Zend Optimizer for any of them in exactly the same way and manage both new and older applications within the same account.