PHP is amongst the most commonly used web programming languages. It’s quite popular since it is free software, which can be used to set up interactive websites such as community websites, shopping portals or e-teaching sites as opposed to static HTML-based sites. A PHP module must be present on the server where a PHP-powered website is hosted so that its source code can be ‘translated’. Because there are no license taxes for such a module and the language itself offers innumerable possibilities for the applications that you create, there are 100s of millions of PHP-powered websites. Furthermore, there are numerous PHP-based scripts, which you can use for your sites without needing to possess any coding expertise. Given the fact that there are a handful of versions of PHP, you need to check if the very same version that you used whilst creating your website is available on the server as well.

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

Our cloud hosting servers support several PHP versions, which means that your websites will work without any problems no matter if your PHP scripts are out of date. We realize that an old website does not always equal an insecure one as you may have carried out lots of code mods. This is the reason why we support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 and you can select which one will be active for your shared web hosting account. The version can be changed with one mouse click via your Hepsia Control Panel and the update will take effect momentarily. In case you would like to run both older and newer scripts, there’s even a possibility to use a different version of PHP for each domain name of yours at the same time.

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

Even in case your sites were built with an earlier PHP version, you will be able to host them in a semi-dedicated server account from us, as we support several versions running at the same time on our semi-dedicated servers and each one of them can be enabled for your account with just a click of the mouse through our custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Other than the latest PHP 8, we also support 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and the older PHP 4, which has already been dropped by the great majority of hosting vendors, but we maintain that you should not be compelled to modify a site that took several years to build, since older script language syntax doesn’t necessarily equal safety gaps. Quite the opposite, a rightly maintained site using PHP 4 can be more reliable than an unmaintained one using PHP 5. For the sake of your convenience, we will also give you the opportunity to choose a different version for each single website within the account.