Christopher Kunz has shared about a resource he came across that offers complete PHP encoding for a much lower price than some of the other services - phpshield.com. It seems a little too good to be true, though:
However, the phpShield.com home page did not offer the slightest clue who actually is behind that product. [...] It's common practice to whitelabel your solutions and sell them under different brands with different feature sets to different target audiences. However, we always clearly state who is behind the whitelabelled solution.
A little more digging shows an interesting relationship between the company that sells SourceGuardian and the company behind this PHPShield (Inovica). He sees the deception counting against the company and has just "struck one off the list" from his search for encoding methods.
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Christopher, I'm Adrian from Inovica. I thought I'd respond to your posting - hope that's OK. phpSHIELD was originally developed by a guy separate to Inovica and we brought him, and his product, into the company. We decided to keep phpSHIELD separate from SourceGuardian because whilst it has many features that are the same, some of the key elements required for developers who are distributing code (such as IP limiting, time limiting etc) are not within phpSHIELD. This is the reason for the price differential. It's not a like-for-like white label product. I do take on your comments regarding the anonymous nature of the site and I'll take this on personally to address. I hope this answers your questions, but feel free to contact me directly if you require further follow up. Appreciate that we've lost you as a potential customer, but I'm a big believer in putting my hands up if we've messed up, so hope this clarifies the position via the way of a public response.
Best regards. Adrian