PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, better known as PHP, is a popular general-purpose server-side programming language, which is used to create dynamic sites with interactive features such as discussion forums, online teaching portals or social networking sites. Unlike static HTML-based websites, a PHP-driven site can serve different web content to each user under the same URL. As PHP-based apps can be managed via one single Control Panel, which you can sign into using any browser, you will not need to possess any web design knowledge or previous experience in order to administer a PHP-driven website. The fact that hundreds of millions of websites around the world are built on PHP is an indication of the popularity and the simplicity of use of the language. You should only verify whether the server on which your site is hosted supports the exact same version of PHP as the one that you used while building the website.

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

With our Linux cloud plans, you will be able to pick which PHP version will be active for your web hosting account, since we support multiple versions. With as little as one click, you will be able to switch between PHP 4, 5, 7 and anytime a new version is unveiled in the future, we will add it to the Hepsia hosting Control Panel without removing the earlier ones. Thus, you’ll be able to host all the sites that you’ve built over the years. In stark contrast with a lot of other providers, we won’t compel you to update such websites, as a script may be outdated, but this doesn’t mean that it’s insecure as you may have implemented modifications to its source code to plug security loopholes. For the sake of your convenience, you will even be able to specify a different version of PHP for each site hosted in your shared web hosting account.

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

In case you have a website created using an older version of PHP and you’ve poured in time and efforts into developing it, fixing safety gaps and posting web page content, you’ll need a web hosting service that can support it, since almost all web hosts today offer only the most recently published PHP version and give up the earlier versions. We, however, have decided to allow you to pick the version that your very own sites need. Our Linux semi-dedicated servers support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, so you will be able to use both newer and older scripts without forfeiting any custom settings or wasting time striving to make your websites compatible with the web hosting platform. The current version can be changed from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and such an update will apply to the entire semi-dedicated server account, but you will also be able to select a different PHP version for each single site hosted in your account by using an .htaccess configuration file.