PHP is among the most widely used general-purpose programming languages. It is quite popular as it is free software, which can be used to set up responsive websites like social networking websites, e-commerce portals or online learning sites as opposed to static HTML-based websites. A PHP module should be enabled on the web server where a PHP-powered site is hosted so that its source code can be read. As there aren’t any license fees for this sort of module and the language itself provides endless possibilities for the web-based apps that you build, there’re 100s of millions of PHP-driven sites. Moreover, there are a multitude of open-source PHP-based scripts, which you can use for your websites without the need to possess any coding capabilities. Considering the fact that there are a handful of PHP versions, you need to confirm if the very same version that you used while building your website is activated on the web server too.

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

In case you purchase a shared web hosting package from our company, you won’t ever need to worry about whether or not your websites are compatible with the hosting environment, since multiple versions of PHP are enabled on our servers for the sake of your convenience. The Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to choose PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 with only one click of the mouse and if you wish to change the version, the update will be applied momentarily. In this way, several years of work on sites built with an older version of PHP won’t be lost. Our web hosting platform will even allow you to use a different version of PHP for each domain name hosted in your account, which suggests that you can run older and newer scripts simultaneously. Most hosting providers on the market offer support for one, sometimes for two PHP versions. Unlike them, we strongly trust that you should be the one to pick the version that your own sites will use.

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

Even if your websites were created 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 semi-dedicated servers and each of them can be enabled for your account with just a click via our in-house created Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Aside from the latest 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 great majority of hosting vendors, but we strongly consider that you shouldn’t be forced to modify a website that took years to set up, since older scripting language syntax does not always imply security flaws. On the contrary, a rightly maintained site using PHP 4 can be more secure than a non-maintained one using PHP 5. For the sake of your convenience, we will also give you the opportunity to choose a different version of PHP for each single site within your account.