PHP, which is a backronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is one of the most widely used open-source web programming languages available out there. Any site or Internet application written in PHP will run on a given server as long as a PHP module is installed, which makes the language absolutely universal and it isn’t really a big surprise that there are actually a couple of million servers that support it and 100s of millions of PHP-powered websites running on them. What makes PHP preferred over HTML is the fact that it enables you to build a dynamic site with a myriad of features. A PHP-based community website, for example, will serve unique content to each visitor in spite of the fact that the URL won’t change. In comparison, HTML-based websites are static and the content on the pages can be edited only manually. Like any other software program, PHP has several versions and the one that was used whilst building a specific website must be configured on the server in order for the site to run faultlessly.

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

If you order a cloud website hosting package from us, you will never need to speculate over whether your websites are compatible with the web hosting environment, since multiple PHP versions are supported on our servers for your convenience’s sake. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to pick PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 with only one single click and in case you need to change the version, the update will take effect straight away. In this way, several years of work on sites created with an older version of PHP will not go down the drain. Our web hosting platform will even allow you to use a different PHP version for each domain hosted in your account, which implies that you can run older and newer scripts simultaneously. Most hosting providers on the marketplace offer one, sometimes two PHP versions. Unlike them, we consider that you should be the one to choose the version that will be used by your own sites.

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

In case you’ve got a site built on an earlier PHP version and you have committed time and energy into developing it, fixing security gaps and entering web content, you’ll need to find a hosting service that can support it, as nearly all hosting vendors nowadays support only the most recently released PHP version and drop the older ones. We, however, have decided to allow you to choose the exact version that your sites need. Our semi-dedicated hosting support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, which suggests that you’ll be able to run both newer and older scripts without losing any custom modifications or frittering away time and efforts struggling to make your websites compatible with the web hosting environment. The current version can be changed via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and such a change will affect the entire semi-dedicated account, but you’ll also have the ability to select a different version for each single website that you host in your account by using an .htaccess configuration file.