PHP is amongst the most commonly used open-source server-side scripting languages. It’s very popular because it is free software, which you can use to build interactive sites such as community websites, shopping portals or e-learning websites rather than static HTML-based websites. A PHP module must be activated on the server where a PHP-driven website is hosted so that its code can be interpreted. Since there are no license fees for this kind of module and the language itself provides incalculable options for the web apps that you build, there’re hundreds of millions of PHP sites. In addition, there’re a huge number of open-source PHP scripts, which you can use for your websites without the need to have any coding know-how. Since there’re a number of PHP versions, you need to confirm that the same version that you used while developing your website is activated on the web server as well.

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

Our shared hosting servers support different versions of PHP, so your sites will work without any problem no matter if your PHP-based scripts are outdated. We accept the fact that an old website doesn’t invariably imply a vulnerable one as you may have done lots of source code mods. That’s the reason why we support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 and you can decide which version will be enabled for your hosting account. The version can be changed with only one single click of the mouse through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and the update will take effect instantaneously. In case you’d like to run both older and newer scripts, there is even a possibility to use a different PHP version for each of your domain names at the same time.

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

Even if your websites were built with an earlier PHP version, you’ll be able to host them in a semi-dedicated server account from us, as we support different versions running simultaneously on our semi-dedicated servers and each one of them can be enabled for your account with just a click of the mouse through our in-house created Hepsia Control Panel. Besides the newest PHP 8, we also support 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and the older PHP 4. The latter has already been dropped by the majority of web hosting vendors, but we strongly believe that you should not be forced to modify a website that took years to build, since older script language syntax doesn’t invariably equal security vulnerabilities. Quite the opposite, a correctly maintained site using PHP 4 can be more reliable than an incorrectly maintained one using PHP 5. For the sake of your convenience, we will also offer you the possibility to select a different version for each single website within the account.