PHP is amongst the most widely used general-purpose scripting languages. It’s very popular because it’s free software, which you can use to create responsive sites such as community portals, shopping portals or e-teaching sites as opposed to static HTML-based sites. A PHP module should be present on the server where a PHP-powered website is hosted so that its source code can be interpreted. Because there aren’t any license charges for this kind of module and the language itself offers countless possibilities for the apps that you create, there’re hundreds of millions of PHP-powered websites. What’s more, there’re a vast number of PHP scripts, which you can use for your websites without the need to possess any programming know-how. As there’re a couple of versions of PHP, you need to confirm whether the same version that you used while creating your site is installed on the web server as well.

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

With our Linux cloud web hosting services, you’ll be able to pick the version of PHP that will be enabled for your web hosting account, as different versions are enabled on our servers. With only one click of the mouse, you will be able to switch between PHP 4, 5, 7 and anytime a new version is released in the future, we’ll include it in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel without removing the older ones. In this way, you will be able to host all the websites that you’ve created over the years. In stark contrast to lots of other hosting providers, we will not force you to update such sites, as a script may be out of date, but this does not necessarily mean that it is insecure as you may have carried out modifications to its source code to fix security breaches. For your convenience’s sake, you’ll even be able to choose a different version of PHP for each single website that you host in your hosting account.

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

If you have a website built on an older PHP version and you have devoted time and effort toward setting it up, patching safety loopholes and posting page content, you will need to find a web hosting service that can support it, since the great majority of web hosting suppliers these days offer support only for the most recent version of PHP and abandon the older versions. We, on the other hand, have decided to allow you to choose the version that your very own sites require. Our semi-dedicated hosting services support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, which suggests that you will be able to run both older and newer scripts without forfeiting any manual modifications or wasting time and effort attempting to make your sites compatible with the web hosting environment. You can change the version via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and such an update will affect the entire semi-dedicated server account, but you’ll also have the ability to set a different version for each single site hosted in your account by means of an .htaccess file.