PHP, which is a recursive initialism for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is among the most famous general-purpose programming languages out there. Any site or Internet app built on PHP will run on a given web server as long as a PHP module is enabled, which makes the language absolutely universal and it’s by no means a surprise that there are a few million web servers that support it and hundreds of millions of PHP websites hosted on them. PHP is preferred over HTML because of the fact that it allows you to set up a dynamic serving website with many different features. A PHP-based social networking website, for instance, will display unique content to each visitor in spite of the fact that the URL will remain the same. In contrast, HTML websites are static and the content on the pages can be updated only manually. Just like any other piece of software, PHP has several versions and the version that was used whilst building a given website must be present on the server in order for the site to run correctly.

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

We’ve decided not to prevent our current and future customers from choosing the PHP version that will be used by their websites, which implies that in case you get a shared hosting package from our company, you will be able to pick between versions 4, 5 and 7, not only for the web hosting account itself, but also for each single domain name hosted by you. This can be done with only one single click through our in-house developed Hepsia Control Panel via which all web hosting accounts are administered, which is why you won’t need to possess any coding or technical expertise. You will be able to host sites based on both new and old scripts without any hassles, so if you decide to swap your current web hosting company and move over to us, you can be certain that all the sites that you have built throughout the years will continue to work perfectly.

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

In case you’ve got a website created with an older version of PHP and you have dedicated time and effort into developing it, filling security loopholes and embedding web page content, you will need to find a web hosting service that can support it, as most hosting vendors nowadays support only the latest version of PHP and drop the previous ones. We, on the other hand, have decided to permit you to select the exact version that your very own sites need. Our semi-dedicated hosting support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, which suggests that you’ll be able to use both older and newer scripts without forfeiting any custom modifications or misspending time and energy attempting to make your sites compatible with the web hosting environment. You can change the version from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and such a change will apply to the entire semi-dedicated server account, but you’ll also have the ability to set a different PHP version for each single website that you host in your account by means of an .htaccess configuration file.