Improved PHP Management — No Rewrites Required
PHP applications are critical to your business, but managing them can be a challenge. Teams often juggle multiple tools for security, monitoring, troubleshooting, and infrastructure management while facing pressure to modernize aging environments. The result is higher costs, greater complexity, and less time spent building value for users.
The Zend Web Platform provides a unified command center for managing, modernizing, securing, and monitoring mission-critical PHP — without requiring application rewrites or unexpected overhead.
One Platform. Two Editions.
The Zend Web Platform is available in two editions to support a range of infrastructure requirements, from teams taking their first steps toward modern PHP operations to organizations running large-scale, mission-critical applications. Choose the edition that aligns with your scalability needs, and contact Zend for assistance evaluating your options.
Core Web Platform
The Core Web Platform makes it easy to modernize without headaches. Using Docker Compose, Core provides a containerized PHP application platform that simplifies deployment, improves visibility, strengthens security, and creates a clear path toward modernization.
Enterprise Web Platform
Powered by Kubernetes, the Enterprise Web Platform builds on the Core edition with advanced scaling, high availability, and enterprise-grade capabilities. It supports growing workloads while maintaining performance, reliability, and compliance readiness.
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Feature
Core Web Platform
Enterprise Web Platform
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Feature
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Secure PHP Runtimes
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PHP Long-Term Support
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Customizable Dashboard
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Real-Time Metrics, Logs & Traces
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OpenTelemetry Integration
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Queue Management
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Expert Onboarding
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CIS-Benchmarked Images
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Compliance Support
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Portability
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Containerization Support
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Implementation Support
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24/7 Production Support for Platform and Integrations
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Docker Compose Deployment
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Kubernetes Deployment
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Helm Charts
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Horizontal Autoscaling
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Advanced Orchestration
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High-Availability Architectures
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Enterprise Scaling
Let Us Handle the Heavy Lifting
Platform migrations are rarely straightforward. The Zend Web Platform simplifies the process through hands-on support from our Professional Services team. We help you create dashboards and visualizations, use tracing to identify issues, and assist as you build PHP containers and drop them into the platform.
You gain a predictable, fully managed experience while maintaining full control of your environment — backed by the engineers who built the platform.
Zend Web Platform: Features and Capabilities
Security, Speed, and Strategic Visibility – All in One Place
Included in Core Included in Enterprise
Powered by Kubernetes or Docker Compose, the Zend Web Platform consolidates ZendPHP, ZendHQ, and Zend Professional Services into a single stack:
- Security – Use OpenTelemetry data to reduce attack surfaces and streamline threat response.
- Portability – Keep complete control of your application and future infrastructure decisions.
- Observability – Access real-time insights into application health for proactive issue resolution
See how in this video, and contact Zend with any questions.
Take Safe and Meaningful Steps Toward Modernization
Included in Core Included in Enterprise
Modernization works best when it happens in manageable stages:
- Container-Ready Foundation — Move applications onto a modern platform without requiring a complete rewrite
- Incremental Adoption — Modernize infrastructure while preserving existing application investments
- Reduced Risk — Modernize with support from experienced PHP professionals.
End-to-End Security for Mission-Critical PHP Applications
Included in Core Included in Enterprise
Security breaches happen fast, from site defacement to ransomware and beyond. Add in meeting compliance requirements in an increasingly complex internet ecosystem and slowed modernization projects, and your critical apps quickly become vulnerable to attacks.
The Zend Web Platform delivers full protection against the latest threats:
- Leverage logs and OpenTelemetry metrics to understand when your applications display signs of potential security issues
- Utilize Zend PHP Long Term Support to extend the lifespan of EOL PHP
- Build in-depth security within deployment environments via CIS Benchmarked Docker Images
- Mitigate risk with compliance-out-of-the-box
Real-Time PHP Application Monitoring and Code Tracing
Included in Core Included in Enterprise
The Zend Web Platform makes it easy to identify and resolve issues before they impact your business, saving you from costly firefighting down the road. It unifies your applications to provide deep PHP visibility through:
- Uninterrupted performance monitoring
- Full integration with existing APMs and tooling
- Easy-to-use dashboards and custom visualizations
- Root-cause analysis to reduce downtime
- Real-time code tracing (requires PHP 8.0 or newer)
- Curated PHP alerts to flag high-priority issues
A PHP Application Platform That’s Portable by Design
Included in Core Included in Enterprise
With the Zend Web Platform, you keep complete control of your applications and infrastructure choices:
- Deploy across environments
- Avoid vendor lock-in and platform restrictions that limit future flexibility
- Preserve existing applications by moving PHP workloads without large-scale architectural changes
Automated Scaling to Meet New Demand
Included in Enterprise Only
Scaling to meet changing user demands is critical for achieving business goals. Here’s how the Enterprise Web Platform helps you reduce complexity and consolidate tool sprawl while scaling your PHP apps:
- Manage shared session state when scaling horizontally
- Access versioned and templated Helm charts
- Implement asynchronous processing to decrease or offload resource usage
- Autoscale web workers, key value storage, and the attached relational database cluster
- Optimize PHP workloads to perform at scale
Additionally, should your requirements change in the future, upgrading from Core to Enterprise is a straightforward process. Contact Zend to learn more.
The Ease of PHP PaaS With No Hidden Costs
Managing PHP applications shouldn't require stitching together multiple tools or giving up control of your environment. The Zend Web Platform brings together the capabilities teams need most —security, monitoring, observability, and modernization — within a single platform:
- Your choice between the Core Web Platform (deployed on Docker Compose) or Enterprise Web Platform (deployed on Kubernetes)
- Unified monitoring with integrated telemetry, including metrics, logging, and tracing, via templated or tailored visualizations
- Optimized performance via separate web and queue worker pools
- Real-time app insights and tracing to minimize time-to-resolution
- Hardened images that meet CIS Docker Benchmarks
- No lock-in portability to simplify moving your PHP layer without rewrites or large-scale architectural changes — use the cloud, your own data center, or hybrid deployment.
- Expert-led onboarding and ongoing support from a global team of proven PHP professionals, as well as broader OSS support from Perforce OpenLogic.
Move from reactive fixes to proactive PHP management, all while reducing complexity and unexpected overhead. Schedule a demo of the Zend Web Platform today.
Zend Web Platform: Frequently Asked Questions
The exact requirements of the Zend Web Platform will vary depending on which edition you choose. The Enterprise Web Platform is built on Kubernetes (including versioned and templated Helm charts), and the Core Web Platform is built on Docker Compose.
Regardless of edition, the Zend Web Platform requires ZendPHP and ZendHQ licenses. You can learn more about each, and try them for free, via the links below.
To take full advantage of the Enterprise Web Platform’s code tracing abilities, you must deploy PHP 8.0 or newer. Upgrade and modernization services are available to ease your transition — including a complimentary code assessment before migration begins (some limitations apply).
While ZendPHP and ZendHQ provide runtime security and monitoring, the Zend Web Platform adds comprehensive orchestration, integrated telemetry, turnkey configuration, and unified dashboards. These elements are all combined into a single observability stack. Think of it like a PHP command center. It builds on the features and functionalities you know and love, but expands them further.
Zend Server reaches end of life in December, 2027, and it is important to make your migration plan as soon as possible.
The Enterprise Web Platform is an ideal solution for current Zend Server users. It combines features you love now (such as intuitive dashboards, queueing, and monitoring) with new tools to enjoy (including enhanced observability and a shift to a declarative deployment model). Click this link to view a full Zend Server and Zend Web Platform feature comparison or watch the video below to learn more about it compares to the Enterprise edition:
Access all the benefits of Platform as a Service without the constraints. To learn more about how the Enterprise Web Platform fits within your infrastructure, you can contact your account representative or fill out the form on this page.
The Zend Web Platform is available in two editions to support different infrastructure requirements: The Core Web Platform and the Enterprise Web Platform. They both provide secure PHP runtimes, centralized monitoring, observability, deployment flexibility, and expert PHP support to help organizations modernize and manage PHP applications more effectively.
The Core Web Platform is ideal for organizations looking to simplify PHP operations, establish a modern foundation for their applications, provide full-featured development environments, or integration into CI/CD pipelines.
The Enterprise Web Platform includes all Core capabilities and adds advanced features such as automated scaling, high availability, enhanced resiliency, and expanded operational capabilities for larger, business-critical environments with more demanding performance and scalability requirements.
The Zend Web Platform can provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution for applications, or be deployed to take advantage of existing infrastructure as needed. In particular, because the platform implements OpenTelemetry, all metrics, traces, and logs can be forwarded to existing OTel services, including commercial platforms compatible with OTel.
When it comes to security, the Zend Web Platform helps your team to mitigate risk by providing continuously up-to-date containers with applied CIS Benchmarks, reducing your team's efforts in tracking and mitigating security vulnerabilities.
Yes. Many organizations begin with traditional PHP applications. Zend can help assess your environment and create a practical adoption path that gradually introduces containerization and modernization without requiring an immediate application rewrite.
Explore our full suite of Professional Services or contact us to learn about how we can help.
One of the first steps toward modernization is often containerization, which lays the foundation for predictable, stable, and uniform deployments. The Zend Web Platform provides that foundation, both for building PHP application containers and providing orchestration within its deployment environment.
Additionally, with our PHP services, you can make the Zend PHP experts your experts during your modernization project. We can help make the journey from legacy to modern PHP manageable, secure, and as stress free as possible.
The Zend Web Platform comes with a one-time setup cost. This includes support from proven PHP professionals in establishing your dashboards, configuring your application, and addressing any custom configuration needs within your stack. It involves no deployment learning curves. Simply drop in and deploy where you want via Docker Compose or Kubernetes, depending on edition. After that, simply connect to different applications to ensure that they are viewable within the platform.
We also offer additional support and training for complex or highly customized configurations. Contact us to learn more.
Yes. The Zend Web Platform provides detailed resource utilization insights, enables efficient horizontal scaling, and offers performance optimization recommendations that help reduce unnecessary cloud spending while maintaining application performance.
The Enterprise Web Platform strengthens PHP application security by identifying performance anomalies so your team can diagnose security events. Additionally, comprehensive logging provides the necessary data for thorough analysis, which is critical for incident investigation and ensures seamless compliance reporting to meet most requirements.
Learn more about using PHP performance metrics to improve security here.
Mission-Critical PHP Made Possible
With the Enterprise Web Platform, every incident becomes an insight, every dashboard a decision, and every deployment a moment of calm confidence. See how it can improve your applications and PHP management today.