PHP is among the most widely used general-purpose programming languages. It’s very popular because it is free software, which can be used to develop responsive sites like social networking sites, online shopping portals or online teaching websites as opposed to static HTML-based websites. A PHP module should be activated on the web server where a PHP-driven site is hosted so that its code can be ‘translated’. Since there are no license charges for this kind of module and the language offers incalculable options for the Internet apps that you build, there are hundreds of millions of PHP websites. What’s more, there’re a large number of open-source PHP-based scripts, which you can use for your sites without having to possess any coding experience. Considering the fact that there’re a few PHP versions, you ought to verify that the same exact version that you used whilst building your site is installed on the web server as well.

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

With our Linux shared hosting packages, you will be able to choose which PHP version will be enabled for your hosting account, since multiple versions are supported on our servers. With only one click of the mouse, you will be able to switch between PHP 4, 5, 7 and whenever a new version is introduced in the future, we will include it in the Hepsia Control Panel without removing the previous versions. Thus, you’ll be able to host all the sites that you’ve built through the years. In contrast to a lot of other hosting providers, we will not compel you to update such sites, as a script may be outdated, but this does not necessarily mean that it is vulnerable as you may have modified its source code to patch security holes. For your convenience’s sake, you’ll even be able to select a different PHP version for each site that you host in your shared hosting account.

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

If you’ve got a site built on an older version of PHP and you have devoted time and efforts to setting it up, plugging safety breaches and adding content, you’ll need to find a web hosting service that can support it, since nearly all hosting companies today support only the most recently introduced PHP version and drop the older ones. We, on the other hand, have decided to allow you to select the exact version that your own websites require. Our semi-dedicated packages support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, which means that you’ll be able to use both older and newer scripts without forfeiting any manual settings or wasting time and effort trying to make your sites compatible with the hosting platform. You can change the current version via the Hepsia Control Panel and such a change will affect the whole account, but you will also be able to choose a different version of PHP for each single site that you host in your account using an .htaccess configuration file.