PHP, which is an initialism for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is one of the most popular reflective programming languages out there. Any site or application based on PHP will run on a given web server as long as a PHP module is activated, which makes the language absolutely universal and it’s not a big surprise that there are several million servers that support it and 100s of millions of PHP sites hosted on them. PHP is preferred over HTML owing to the fact that it enables you to build a responsive website with an abundance of different features. A PHP-based community web portal, for example, will display unique content to each visitor regardless of the fact that the URL will not change. In comparison, HTML websites are static and the page content can be edited only manually. Like any other software, PHP has several versions and the version that was used whilst building a given website must be present on the web server in order for the site to run faultlessly.

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

In case you buy a shared web hosting package from our company, you will never have to question yourself on whether your sites are compatible with the hosting platform, since we offer multiple versions of PHP for your convenience. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to select PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 with only one single click and if you would like to change the current version, the new settings will take effect instantaneously. Thus, many years of work on sites built with an older PHP version will not go down the tubes. Our web hosting platform will even allow you to use a different PHP version for each domain name hosted in your account, so you can use newer and older scripts simultaneously. Most hosting providers on the marketplace offer support for one, sometimes for two versions of PHP. In contrast with them, we reckon that you should be the one to choose the version that your very own websites will use.