PHP is amongst the most commonly used open-source server-side coding languages. It’s exceptionally popular because it’s free software, which can be used to set up interactive websites such as social networking websites, e-shops or online teaching portals as opposed to static HTML-based sites. A PHP module must be installed on the web server where a PHP-powered website is hosted so that its code can be ‘decoded’. Because there aren’t any license charges for such a module and the language offers unlimited options for the Internet applications that you develop, there are hundreds of millions of PHP-driven websites. On top of that, there are a lot of open-source PHP scripts, which you can use for your sites without the need to possess any programming abilities. Since there’re different PHP versions, you must check if the same version that you used whilst developing your site is activated on the web server too.

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

Our cloud website hosting servers support several PHP versions, which implies that your websites will work faultlessly no matter if your PHP scripts are out of date. We know that an old website doesn’t necessarily equal an insecure one as you may have carried out lots of mods to its source code. That is why we support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 and you can select which version will be active for your account. You can change the version with one single click via your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and the update will be applied instantaneously. If you wish to run both newer and older scripts, there is even a possibility to use a different version of PHP for each domain name of yours simultaneously.

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

In case you’ve got a site created using a previous PHP version and you’ve sacrificed time and effort in setting it up, fixing security loopholes and inserting web content, you will need to find a hosting service that can support it, as most hosting suppliers nowadays offer support only for the most recent version of PHP and abandon the older ones. We, on the other hand, have decided to allow you to pick the exact version that your sites need. Our semi-dedicated servers support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, which means that you will be able to use both older and newer scripts without losing any customizations or misspending time trying to make your sites compatible with the hosting environment. You can change the version via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and such an update will affect the entire account, but you will also be able to set a different PHP version for each individual website hosted in your account using an .htaccess configuration file.