LuxSci has revised its “File Manager” tool, which provides a secure web-based interface for managing files in a user’s “FTP Space”.  This tool is a good alternative to FTP when additional security and auditing is required or for file access without the need for a third party FTP (or SFTP) program is desirable.

The enhancements to the LuxSci File Manager include:

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LuxSci has added support for the Zend Optimizer to its web hosting services.  The Zend Optimizer:

• Runs PHP applications encoded using Zen Guard.  This is the “most widely accepted PHP encryption product on the market, it protects your application from unlicensed use and reverse engineering.”
• Runs normal PHP scripts faster than would otherwise be possible.

All web sites on LuxSci that use PHP are now automatically being optimized for performance by the Zend Optimizer.

LuxSci also supports the ionCube PHP Loader.

ionCube is a PHP popular encoding system that allows webmasters to:

• Encode PHP files to protect them from easy observation of the source code
• Enable PHP software protection using license codes
• Protect scripts from unauthorized changes that may go unnoticed indefinitely and be a serious security and data protection risk.
• Optimize PHP so that encoded scripts may run faster than normal scripts.

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