PHP, which stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is among the most commonly used interpreted programming languages out there. Any website or Internet application based on PHP will run on a given web server provided that a PHP module is enabled, which renders the language absolutely universal and it’s barely surprising that there are a couple of million servers that support it and hundreds of millions of PHP sites running on them. PHP is preferred over HTML because it enables you to build an interactive site with a huge number of features. A PHP-based community portal, for example, will display different content to each user despite the fact that the URL will remain the same. In comparison, HTML-based sites are static and the page content can be edited only manually. Like any other software, PHP has different versions and the one that was used whilst developing a specific website must be activated on the web server in order for the site to behave faultlessly.
PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Web Hosting
With our web hosting, you’ll be able to pick which PHP version will be active for your shared account, since different versions are available on our servers. With just one mouse click, you’ll be able to switch between PHP 4, 5, 7 and whenever a new version is published in the future, we’ll include it in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel without removing the earlier versions. In this way, you’ll be able to host all the sites that you have developed over the years. In contrast with a lot of other web hosts, we won’t force you to update such sites, because a script may be outdated, but this doesn’t automatically mean that it is insecure since you may have modified its source code to patch safety breaches. For your convenience’s sake, you will even be able to set a different PHP version for each single website hosted in your web hosting account.
PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Semi-dedicated Servers
Even if your sites were built with an older PHP version, you will be able to host them in a semi-dedicated server account from us, since we support different versions running at the same time on our servers and each one of them can be activated for your account with no more than a click via our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel. Besides the most recent PHP 8, we also offer 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. The latter has already been dropped by the vast majority of web hosting providers, but we maintain that you should not be compelled to modify a website that took years to set up, since older programming language syntax does not necessarily suggest security holes. On the contrary, a correctly maintained site using PHP 4 can be more reliable than a non-maintained one using PHP 5. For your convenience, we’ll also provide you with the possibility to specify a different version for each single site within the account.