PHP is among the most commonly used general-purpose server-side scripting languages. It is quite popular as it is free software, which you can use to develop interactive sites like community websites, online stores or e-learning websites instead of static HTML-based websites. A PHP module should be enabled on the web server where a PHP website is hosted so that its PHP code can be ‘decoded’. Because there are no license taxes for this kind of module and the language itself provides infinite possibilities for the applications that you create, there’re hundreds of millions of PHP-powered websites. Moreover, there are loads of open-source PHP scripts, which you can use for your sites without the need to have any programming knowledge. Given the fact that there are a couple of PHP versions, you have to make certain that the same version that you used while developing your site is available on the web server too.

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

If you purchase a shared hosting plan from our company, you won’t ever have to speculate about whether or not your sites are compatible with the hosting platform, as we support several PHP versions for your convenience’s sake. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to choose PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 with just one click of the mouse and if you would like to change the current version, the new settings will be applied right away. In this way, years of work on sites built with an older version won’t go down the tube. Our hosting platform will even permit you to use a different version of PHP for each domain hosted in your account, which suggests that you can use newer and older scripts simultaneously. Most web hosting companies on the marketplace offer support for one, sometimes for two PHP versions. In stark contrast to them, we strongly believe that you should be the one to choose the version that your very own sites will be using.

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

If you’ve got a site built using a previous PHP version and you’ve put time and efforts into developing it, repairing safety loopholes and embedding web content, you’ll need a hosting service that can support it, since the majority of web hosting companies nowadays offer support only for the latest version of PHP and drop the older ones. We, on the other hand, have decided to allow you to select the version that your own sites require. Our Linux semi-dedicated servers support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, so you will be able to use both older and newer scripts without losing any manual settings or wasting time and effort trying to make your websites compatible with the web hosting environment. You can change the current version via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and such a change will affect the whole semi-dedicated server account, but you will also be able to set a different version for each single site that you host in your account using an .htaccess config file.