PHP, which is an initialism for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is amongst the most widely used reflective programming languages available out there. Any website or Internet app built on PHP will run on a given web server on the condition that a PHP module is enabled, which renders the language absolutely universal and it isn’t really a surprise that there are a couple of million servers that support it and hundreds of millions of PHP-driven sites running on them. PHP is preferred over HTML owing to the fact that it enables you to set up an interactive site with numerous features. A PHP-based community site, for example, will display unique web content to each visitor in spite of the fact that the page URL will remain unchanged. On the other hand, HTML sites are static and the page content itself can be updated only manually. Like any other piece of software, PHP has different versions and the one that was used while building a given website must be present on the server in order for the site to behave faultlessly.

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

Our shared web hosting servers support different versions of PHP, so your sites will work faultlessly no matter if your PHP scripts are out of date. We recognize the fact that an old site doesn’t inevitably imply an insecure one as you may have performed plenty of mods to its source code. This is why we support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 and you can pick which version will be enabled for your shared web hosting account. You can change the version with just one mouse click via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and the new settings will be applied instantaneously. In case you would like to run both newer and older scripts, there is even a possibility to use a different version of PHP for each of your domain names at the same time.

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

In case you’ve got a site based on an older PHP version and you have donated time and energy into setting it up, filling security loopholes and appending content, you will need a web hosting service that can support it, as most hosting providers today support only the most recently introduced version of PHP and abandon the older ones. We, however, have decided to permit you to choose the exact version that your 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 manual tweaks or wasting time striving to make your sites compatible with the web hosting environment. You can change the current version through the Hepsia Control Panel and such an update will apply to the whole semi-dedicated server account, but you’ll also have the ability to specify a different PHP version for each single site that you host in your account by using an .htaccess config file.