Plenty of licensed and some free of charge script-driven applications have protected program code, which is not human readable. The reasoning behind this is to avoid the reverse engineering and the unwanted usage of such apps. Among the most popular encryption software instruments used for this purpose is called Zend Guard and it's used widely due to the fact that it can be used to modify all PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 code. The only way for the encrypted files to run the right way on a web server after that is when one more tool called Zend Optimizer is available. If you want to use any type of paid web software that needs Zend Optimizer, you should make sure that it is installed on the server where you'll host your website. Also, websites that need the tool tend to perform better as their code is already precompiled and optimized, which means that it's executed faster.
Zend Optimizer in Shared Hosting
Zend Optimizer is installed on all the servers that are a part of our modern cloud web hosting platform. No matter which shared hosting you obtain, you can activate the software instrument to guarantee that any kind of script application that needs it will function properly as part of your account. Using a handy software instrument from the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel which is provided with all the web hosting accounts, you can activate and deactivate a variety of settings with one button. Zend Optimizer will be one of these, so even if this happens to be your first web hosting account ever, you won't experience any problems. In the exact same section you can also select the PHP version for your account - 4 and numerous versions of 5, and whenever you change to one that you haven't used yet, you can enable Zend Optimizer for it with a click. Because our platform allows you to use a couple of PHP releases at the same time, more experienced users can activate the instrument for an individual site with a php.ini file in a specific domain folder as well.