PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, commonly referred to as PHP, is a popular general-purpose scripting language, which is used to develop dynamic sites with interactive features such as message boards, online learning websites or social networking websites. In contrast with static HTML-based sites, a PHP-driven website can show different content to each user under the very same page URL. Since PHP-based applications can be managed via a single Control Panel, which you can log in to using any online browser, you will not need to have any computer programming expertise or past experience whatsoever in order to run a PHP-powered site. The fact that hundreds of millions of sites worldwide are built with PHP is an indication of the language’s popularity and ease of use. You should only make certain that the web server where you host your website supports the same version of PHP as the one that you used while setting up the website.

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

In case you purchase a shared hosting package from our company, you will never have to ponder on whether your websites are compatible with the web hosting platform, as several versions of PHP are available on our servers for your convenience’s sake. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to pick PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 with just one click and in case you’d like to change the current version, the new settings will take effect momentarily. Thus, years of work on sites built with an older version of PHP will not go down the tubes. Our web hosting platform will even permit you to use a different version of PHP for each domain name hosted in your account, which suggests that you can use newer and older scripts at the same time. Most web hosting companies on the marketplace support one, sometimes two versions of PHP. Unlike them, we think that you should be the one to select the version that your very own websites will use.

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

In case you’ve got a website built with an earlier version of PHP and you have devoted time and energy toward developing it, fixing security holes and appending web content, you will need to find a web hosting service that can support it, as the great majority of hosting companies today offer only the most recently introduced PHP version and drop the older ones. We, however, have decided to let you choose the exact version that your own sites need. Our semi-dedicated hosting plans support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, which means that you will be able to use both older and newer scripts without losing any custom tweaks or wasting time struggling to make your websites compatible with the web hosting platform. The current version can be changed from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and such a change will affect the entire semi-dedicated account, but you will also be able to select a different version for each individual site hosted in your account using an .htaccess config file.