PHP is among the most commonly used open-source programming languages. It is pretty popular since it’s free software, which you can use to build responsive websites such as community portals, online stores or e-learning portals instead of static HTML-based sites. A PHP module must be enabled on the web server where a PHP-driven site is hosted so that its PHP code can be ‘decrypted’. As there aren’t any license taxes for this sort of module and the language offers limitless possibilities for the applications that you build, there are hundreds of millions of PHP-driven sites. What is more, there’re a ton of PHP scripts, which you can use for your sites without the need to possess any coding experience. Since there are a handful of PHP versions, you should confirm whether the very same version that you used while developing your site is installed on the web server too.

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

With our Linux hosting, you will be able to pick the version of PHP that will be active for your web hosting account, since several versions are enabled on our servers. With only one click, you’ll be able to switch between PHP 4, 5, 7 and each time a new version is launched in the future, we’ll include it in the Hepsia Control Panel without removing the earlier ones. Thus, you’ll be able to host all the websites that you have created through the years. In stark contrast to many other web hosting companies, we will not compel you to update such websites, because a script may be outdated, but this doesn’t mean that it is insecure as you may have implemented modifications to its source code to fix security loopholes. For the sake of your convenience, you’ll even be able to select a different PHP version for each individual site that you host in your shared account.

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

If you have a website built using an older version of PHP and you’ve dedicated time and energy into developing it, patching security loopholes and posting web page content, you will need a web hosting service that can support it, as the great majority of web hosting vendors today offer support only for the most recently unveiled PHP version and remove the earlier versions. We, on the other hand, have decided to let you select the version that your own websites require. Our semi-dedicated hosting 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 custom modifications or frittering away time and energy struggling to make your sites compatible with the web hosting environment. You can change the current version through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and such a change will affect the whole semi-dedicated account, but you’ll also have the ability to pick a different PHP version for each single site that you host in your account by using an .htaccess config file.