PHP is amongst the most commonly used curly-bracket programming languages. It’s extremely popular since it’s free software, which you can use to create responsive sites like social networks, online shopping portals or online learning portals rather than static HTML websites. A PHP module should be activated on the web server where a PHP website is hosted so that its code can be ‘deciphered’. Because there are no license fees for this kind of module and the language itself offers incalculable options for the Internet applications that you build, there are 100s of millions of PHP-driven websites. Additionally, there’re a myriad of PHP-based scripts, which you can use for your websites without needing to possess any coding know-how. Given the fact that there’re different versions of PHP, you have to confirm that the same version that you used whilst building your site is installed on the server as well.

PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Cloud Web Hosting

With our Linux cloud web hosting packages, you will be able to choose the PHP version that will be active for your web hosting account, as different versions are supported on our servers. With just one click, you’ll be able to switch between PHP 4, 5, 7 and anytime a new version is introduced in the future, we’ll add it to the Hepsia hosting Control Panel without removing the earlier ones. In this way, you’ll be able to host all the websites that you’ve created through the years. Unlike lots of other web hosts, we won’t force you to update such sites, as a script may be out of date, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that it is insecure as you may have edited its source code to patch security holes. For your convenience’s sake, you’ll even be able to select a different PHP version for each individual site that you host in your shared account.

PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a site based on a previous PHP version and you have dedicated time and effort into developing it, plugging security loopholes and inputting page content, you’ll need a web hosting service that can support it, as the vast majority of hosting providers nowadays offer support only for the most recently published PHP version and give up the earlier ones. We, however, have decided to allow you to select the version that your very own websites need. Our Linux semi-dedicated packages support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, so you will be able to run both newer and older scripts without losing any custom tweaks or wasting time and energy striving to make your websites compatible with the web hosting environment. You can change the version via the Hepsia Control Panel and such a change will affect the entire semi-dedicated server account, but you’ll also have the ability to pick a different PHP version for each website hosted in your account by using an .htaccess configuration file.