PHP, which is a recursive initialism for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is amongst the most popular interpreted programming languages out there. Any site or Internet application built using PHP will run on a given server as long as a PHP module is enabled, which makes the language absolutely universal and it’s little surprise that there are several million web servers that support it and hundreds of millions of PHP-driven websites hosted on them. What makes PHP preferred over HTML is the fact that it enables you to create a responsive website with a multitude of options. A PHP-based social network, for example, will show different web content to each visitor although the page URL won’t change. On the other hand, HTML sites are static and the page content can be edited only manually. Just like any other software program, PHP has several versions and the one that was used whilst developing a specific website must be set up on the web server in order for the site to run properly.

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

Our shared hosting servers support different PHP versions, which suggests that your sites will work without any problems no matter if your PHP-based scripts are outdated. We acknowledge the fact that an old website does not necessarily equal a vulnerable one as you may have done lots of source code mods. This is the reason why we support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 and you can select which version will be active for your shared web hosting account. The version can be changed with just one click in your Hepsia Control Panel and the new settings will take effect right away. In case you would like to run both newer and older scripts, there’s even an option to use a different version of PHP for each of your domains at the same time.

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

In case you’ve got a site created in a previous PHP version and you’ve committed time and energy toward developing it, repairing security holes and publishing content, you will need to find a hosting service that can support it, since the majority of hosting companies nowadays offer only the most recently published version of PHP and give up the earlier ones. We, however, have decided to allow you to choose the exact version that your websites require. Our semi-dedicated service support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, which means that you will be able to run both older and newer scripts without losing any manual modifications or misspending time and efforts attempting to make your sites compatible with the hosting platform. The version can be changed via the Hepsia Control Panel and such a change will affect the whole semi-dedicated server account, but you will also be able to set a different PHP version for each single site that you host in your account by using an .htaccess file.