PHP, which is an initialism for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is amongst the most widely used coding languages out there. Any website or web-based app built with PHP will run on a given server provided that a PHP module is activated, which makes the language truly universal and it’s not really all that surprising that there are actually several million servers that support it and hundreds of millions of PHP-powered sites running on them. PHP is preferred over HTML thanks to the fact that it enables you to develop a dynamic website with an abundance of options. A PHP-based social network, for example, will serve different web content to each user even though the page URL will not change. On the other hand, HTML sites are static and the page content can be modified only manually. Like any other piece of software, PHP has different versions and the version that was used while creating a specific website must be present on the web server in order for the site to work flawlessly.

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

If you buy a cloud hosting package from our company, you won’t ever have to ponder on whether your sites are compatible with the web hosting environment, since multiple PHP versions are installed on our servers for your convenience’s sake. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to choose PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 with just one single click and if you wish to change the current version, the update will take effect straight away. Thus, several years of work on sites built with an older version of PHP will not go down the drain. Our hosting platform will even allow you to use a different version of PHP for each domain hosted in your account, which suggests that you can use older and newer scripts simultaneously. Most web hosting companies on the market offer support for one, sometimes for two versions of PHP. In stark contrast to them, we are strongly convinced that you should be the one to choose the version that your own sites will be using.

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

If you have a website based on a previous version of PHP and you’ve dedicated time and effort to developing it, patching safety holes and inserting content, you’ll need to find a hosting service that can support it, as almost all hosting suppliers today support only the most recent PHP version and give up the older ones. We, however, have decided to allow you to select the version that your very own sites require. Our semi-dedicated servers support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, which implies that you’ll be able to use both older and newer scripts without losing any manual settings or frittering away time and efforts attempting to make your websites compatible with the web hosting platform. The current version can be changed 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 choose a different version for each single website hosted in your account by using an .htaccess configuration file.