Welcome to Zend Server

Zend Server provides a complete, reliable and secure PHP stack, bundling over 80 of the most popular PHP extensions and libraries. Whether on Apache, nginx or IIS - Zend Server provides you with a consistent PHP environment across all major operating systems, for both development and production.
Easily manage your PHP configuration settings to fit the needs of your applications - whether on a single server or a large cluster.

Streamline and automate the process of deploying applications using Zend Server Deployment. Eliminate key sources of deployment failures, and ensure consistency across development, staging and production, by using application packages containing your code, deployment scripts, dependencies, metadata and installation parameters.

Deploy your apps manually from within the Zend Server UI, or integrate automated deployment into your continuous delivery cycle using Zend Server's deployment APIs.

Set deployment policy to Hot Deployment to avoid server restarts and benefit from 100% uptime during deployment. Code libraries can be abstracted out from apps and managed centrally, simplifying dependencies and updates.

Congratulations! Now that you're using Zend Server, your apps are already running faster than before. You can squeeze even more performance out of them using the following features:
Running jobs using Zend Job Queue allows executing time-consuming jobs asynchronously, removing application bottlenecks and improving end user experience. Fine tune and optimize your jobs performance using Job Queue Pulse.

Using Zend Page Cache speeds up recurring access to PHP pages by caching the entire output of specific URLs.
Can't cache the entire page? Use the Zend Data Cache API to avoid computing the same data again and again.

When something goes wrong with your apps, you need to know about it. Whether it's a slow page or a runtime error - Zend Server helps you find out precisely what happened and when - as well as giving you all the information you need to fix it.
When something does go wrong, Code Tracing provides you with the equivalent of a black-box containing the full function-by-function flow of the problematic PHP request. Use Zend Debugger or XDebug for remote debugging of PHP applications with your IDE.

Z-Ray is an innovative tech that gives unprecedented and in-context visibility inside apps by showing exactly what constructs each page, allowing developers to detect errors early on in development.
Z-Ray monitors the requests to the Web server, and supplies developers with detailed info on their code, including: PHP functions, SQL queries, request variables, log entries, performance metrics, and plenty more.
Developing APIs, web services or mobile applications? On the Z-Ray Live! page, Z-Ray tracks and displays real-time information on non-browser based requests as well.
Z-Ray also provides info on your favorite PHP app/framework (Magento, WordPress, Drupal, ZF1, ZF2, Symfony). Using our APIs, you can hook into Z-Ray's tracking mechanism and plug in an extension of your own.
Use Z-Ray in production using a security mechanism that allows administrators to restrict access to Z-Ray according to IP, URL and time duration.

Use the new Plugin Gallery to extend Zend Server's functionality by installing plugins developed by, and for, Zend Server users.
Developed your own plugin? Submit it to the Gallery to share it with the entire community.
Once installed, manage your plugins using full life-cycle support. Get notified of available updates or check for updates yourself, and easily redeploy, enable/disable, and remove plugins.

The open-source PHP Toolkit has been developed by IBM and Zend to help you extend PHP code to access IBM i resources.
The Toolkit's XML Service back-end service, written in RPG and using a choice of transports, including ibm_db2 and odbc extensions, is designed to work either statelessly or statefully.
Its stateful abilities enable developers to call RPG/COBOL/CL programs and APIs while retaining cursors, library lists, the QTEMP library, and more, to enable reuse of existing programs for web applications.

Need to scale up your website? A modern, robust and scalable architecture allows you to easily scale up your production environment and scale-out environments. Based on a de-centralized management system that is comprised of identical components, Zend Server ensures high availability and full support of cloud environments.
With Zend Session Clustering, session data is shared between multiple servers in your cluster, ensuring session continuity in case of system failure, and high availability of your system.

Zend Server supplies data you can use to monitor your applications and improve their performance.
Looking for the most time consuming URL? How about the most frequently visited URL? URL Statistics gives you reports on specific URLs for PHP pages on your Web server, so you can get a clearer picture of how your application is performing over time.
Zend Statistics is an additional monitoring tool that collects and displays important statistical data in the UI, enabling you to closely keep track on how your deployed applications and servers are performing. This information is reflected in a series of metrics displayed in graphical charts on the Dashboard page.

Zend Server is fully API-enabled, meaning you can automate all of its various management actions, and integrate with external systems - including your Continuous Delivery cycle.
Based on REST-based APIs, the built-in CLI Tools can be used to automate common setup operations on Linux, Mac, and IBM i.
Likewise, you can use the Zend Server PHP SDK to create and deploy application packages, and manage deployment targets.

Easily fine-tune settings for receiving emails, notifications, audits, and more, from Zend Server.
Need to replicate your configuration settings across environments? (e.g. development to staging, or staging to production) With Zend Server, you can export configuration settings from one environment to another with the click of a button, also enabling you to backup your configuration for future use. Zend Server helps you meet the governance and compliance standards of your organization. Use the Audit Trail to track changes made to your system configuration, whether made via the UI, API or directly on the file system. The user management system allows you to control access to Zend Server, and enables developers to safely access production metrics and diagnostics, with read-only permissions. Use the built-in user management, or authenticate against an existing corporate LDAP server. Get fixes to security problems (CVEs) under the Zend Server Long Term Support policy.

The main reason for applying masking to a data field is to protect data that is classified as personal identifiable information (PII), personal sensitive data or commercially sensitive data. You can define a set of rules to determine what needs to be masked by Zend Server before it is stored or persisted. This configuration affects data storage in the following components: Code Tracing, Monitoring and Z-Ray.

Each edition of Zend Server comes with an SLA that includes support for PHP, Zend Framework, and the Zend value-add, providing varying levels of availability and response times based on your company's business needs. Long Term Support, and the ability to request or prioritize custom fixes for PHP and Zend Framework, are available through Premium editions.
Zend can also help you leverage your investment in PHP and Zend technology in the best possible way, and provides a wide range of courses for PHP, Zend Framework and Zend Server. Zend also offers consulting services, allowing you to gain access to some of the most experienced PHP architects for tasks such as architecture audits, security audits, and more.