PHP, which is a recursive abbreviation for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is one of the most famous server-side programming languages that are available out there. Any website or web application created with PHP will run on a given web server provided that a PHP module is activated, which makes the language really universal and it’s hardly a surprise that there are actually several million servers that support it and 100s of millions of PHP-powered sites hosted on them. PHP is preferred over HTML because of the fact that it enables you to set up a dynamic site with numerous different options. A PHP-based social networking website, for instance, will display different content to each user although the page URL will be the same. On the other hand, HTML-based websites are static and the page content itself can be modified only manually. Just like any other software program, PHP has several versions and the version that was used while building a specific website must be installed on the server in order for the site to run faultlessly.
PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Shared Website Hosting
We have made the decision not to prevent our present and prospective customers from selecting what PHP version will be used by their sites, which means that if you buy a shared website hosting package from us, you will be able to select between versions 4, 5 and 7, not only for the account in general, but also for each individual domain hosted by you. This can be done with just one click through our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel via which all shared web hosting accounts are managed, which is the reason why you won’t need to have any technical or programming expertise. You will be able to manage sites built with both new and old PHP scripts without having to cope with any problems, so if you would like to abandon your current hosting services provider and migrate over to us, you can be sure that all the websites that you’ve built throughout the years will continue to work perfectly.
PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a site built on an older version of PHP and you’ve put time and effort toward setting it up, filling security loopholes and inputting web page content, you will need a web hosting service that can support it, since the vast majority of web hosting suppliers these days offer only the newest version of PHP and abandon the previous ones. We, however, have decided to let you pick the exact version that your sites require. Our semi-dedicated servers support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, which goes to say that you’ll be able to use both older and newer scripts without forfeiting any manual tweaks or frittering away time striving to make your websites compatible with the hosting environment. The current version can be changed via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and such a change will affect the entire semi-dedicated server account, but you will also have the ability to pick a different version for each site hosted in your account by means of an .htaccess configuration file.