PHP, which is a bacronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is amongst the most widely used scripting languages available out there. Any site or web-based application created in PHP will run on a given web server on the condition that a PHP module is installed, which makes the language really universal and it comes as little surprise that there are actually a couple of million servers that support it and hundreds of millions of PHP-driven websites hosted on them. PHP is preferred over HTML because of the fact that it enables you to set up an interactive website with a large number of options. A PHP-based social networking website, for example, will serve different web content to each visitor although the page URL will stay unchanged. In contrast, HTML-based sites are static and the page content itself can be modified only manually. Like any other software program, PHP has several versions and the version that was used whilst creating a specific website must be activated on the web server so that the site can run faultlessly.

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

In case you buy a cloud hosting plan from us, you will never need to ponder over whether your websites are compatible with the hosting platform, as multiple PHP versions are supported on our servers for your convenience. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to select PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 with just one click and in case you wish to change the current version, the new settings will be applied instantaneously. Thus, years of work on sites built with an older PHP version won’t go down the tube. Our hosting platform will even permit you to use a different version of PHP for each domain name hosted in your account, which implies that you can run newer and older scripts at the same time. Most hosting providers on the market offer one, sometimes two versions of PHP. In stark contrast with them, we strongly maintain that you should be the one to pick the version that will be used by your very own sites.

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

Our Linux semi-dedicated servers support multiple PHP versions, which implies that you’ll be able to run all the web applications that you’ve set up over the years. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with every semi-dedicated account, will permit you to set the required version with one single click. You can select between PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8. In case you’d like to host multiple sites under the same account and they have different requirements with regards to the web hosting platform, you’ll be able to set a different version for each one of them irrespective of which version has been enabled for the account itself. That’s possible thanks to our custom-created cloud hosting platform, which permits us to run multiple versions of PHP all at once. In contrast, the vast majority of hosting vendors normally offer one, in very rare cases – two versions.