PHP is among the most commonly used open-source server-side coding languages. It is highly popular because it’s free software, which you can use to create interactive sites like social networking websites, online stores or online teaching portals as opposed to static HTML-based websites. A PHP module must be activated on the web server where a PHP website is hosted so that its PHP code can be ‘translated’. As there aren’t any license taxes for such a module and the language itself offers countless possibilities for the web apps that you set up, there’re hundreds of millions of PHP-powered sites. Plus, there’re numerous open-source PHP scripts, which you can use for your websites without the need to have any programming capabilities. Given the fact that there are a number of PHP versions, you need to confirm whether the same version that you used while setting up your site is present on the server as well.
PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Website Hosting
If you buy a website hosting plan from us, you will never have to wonder if your sites are compatible with the hosting platform, as different PHP versions are activated on our servers for your convenience. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to pick PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 with only one click of the mouse and in case you’d like to change the version, the update will take effect momentarily. In this way, many years of work on websites built with an older version of PHP will not be wasted. Our web hosting platform will even permit you to use a different PHP version for each domain hosted in your account, which goes to say that you can run older and newer scripts simultaneously. Most hosting providers on the market offer one, sometimes two PHP versions. In stark contrast to them, we strongly maintain that you should be the one to select the version that your own sites will use.
PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Semi-dedicated Servers
Even in case your websites were created with an older PHP version, you’ll be able to host them in a semi-dedicated server account from us, since we support different versions running simultaneously on our semi-dedicated servers and each of them can be enabled for your account with just one click from our custom-created Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Other than the most recent 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 abandoned by most web hosting companies, but we deem that you should not be forced to modify a website that took years to develop, as older script language syntax does not invariably imply security loopholes. On the contrary, a properly maintained website using PHP 4 can be more secure than a wrongly maintained one using PHP 5. For the sake of your convenience, we will also give you the opportunity to select a different version for each single website within your account.