PHP, which is a metacronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is one of the most popular general-purpose server-side coding languages that are available out there. Any site or Internet app created in PHP will run on a given web server on the condition that a PHP module is activated, which makes the language absolutely universal and it’s hardly a surprise that there are several million servers that support it and 100s of millions of PHP-powered sites hosted on them. PHP is preferred over HTML owing to the fact that it permits you to create a dynamic serving website with a myriad of different features. A PHP-based community site, for instance, will show different content to each user even though the page URL won’t change. In comparison, HTML-based sites are static and the page content itself can be updated only manually. Just like any other software, PHP has different versions and the one that was used while setting up a specific website must be configured on the server in order for the site to work flawlessly.
PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Shared Hosting
Our shared hosting servers support several PHP versions, which suggests that your websites will run faultlessly even if your scripts are out of date. We recognize the fact that an old site does not invariably equal a vulnerable one as you may have implemented lots of mods to its source code. That is why we support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 and you can choose which one will be enabled for your hosting account. The version can be changed with a single click of the mouse through your Hepsia Control Panel and the update will be applied momentarily. In case you would like to run both newer and older scripts, there’s 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 Servers
Our semi-dedicated servers support multiple versions of PHP, so you will be able to run all the web applications that you have created over the years. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes bundled with each and every semi-dedicated server account, will allow you to enable the required version with one mouse click. You can pick between PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8. If you would like to host multiple websites in one and the same account and they have various requirements related to the hosting environment, you’ll be able to pick a different version for each one of them irrespective of which version has been selected for the account itself. That’s possible thanks to our custom-developed cloud web hosting platform, which permits us to run several PHP versions concurrently. In stark contrast, most hosting providers normally support one, in very rare cases – two versions.