PHP, which is a metacronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is one of the most commonly used server-side programming languages that are available out there. Any website or web-based application built using PHP will run on a given server on the condition that a PHP module is activated, which makes the language truly universal and it is hardly surprising that there are actually several million web servers that support it and hundreds of millions of PHP-powered sites running on them. PHP is preferred over HTML owing to the fact that it allows you to set up a dynamic serving site with a ton of different options. A PHP-based community web portal, for example, will show different content to each visitor although the URL will remain the same. In comparison, HTML websites are static and the page content can be modified only manually. Just like any other software program, PHP has different versions and the one that was used whilst developing a particular website must be activated on the web server in order for the site to work flawlessly.

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

If you buy a shared website hosting plan from us, you’ll never need to question yourself on whether your sites are compatible with the hosting environment, as we support different PHP versions for your convenience. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to pick PHP 4, PHP 5 and PHP 7 with only one single click of the mouse and in case you would like to change the version, the new settings will take effect immediately. Thus, many years of work on websites built with an older PHP version won’t be wasted. Our web hosting platform will even permit you to use a different PHP version for each domain hosted in your account, which means that you can run older and newer scripts at the same time. Most hosting companies on the marketplace offer support for one, sometimes for two versions of PHP. Unlike them, we believe that you should be the one to select the version that your own websites will be using.

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

Even in case your sites were created with an older version of PHP, you will be able to host them in a semi-dedicated server account from us, as we support different versions running simultaneously on our servers and each of them can be activated for your account with no more than one click through our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel. Besides the latest PHP 7, we also offer 5.3, 5.2 and the older PHP 4. The latter has already been abandoned by the majority of web hosting suppliers, but we think that you should not be compelled to modify a site that took several years to set up, since older scripting language syntax doesn’t always suggest security loopholes. Just the opposite, a rightly maintained site using PHP 4 can be more reliable than a wrongly maintained one using PHP 5. For your convenience’s sake, we’ll also offer you the opportunity to specify a different PHP version for each single site within your account.