PHP is amongst the most commonly used open-source programming languages. It’s very popular because it’s free software, which you can use to build responsive sites like community sites, web shops or online teaching portals rather than static HTML sites. A PHP module should be activated on the web server where a PHP site is hosted so that its code can be read. As there are no license charges for this type of module and the language provides unlimited possibilities for the web applications that you set up, there’re 100s of millions of PHP-driven websites. Moreover, there’re numerous open-source PHP scripts, which you can use for your sites without the need to have any coding expertise. Since there’re a few versions of PHP, you should verify if the same exact version that you used whilst building your site is present on the web server too.

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

In case you have a website built with an earlier version of PHP and you’ve put time and efforts towards setting it up, fixing safety loopholes and inserting web content, you will need to find a web hosting service that can support it, as the majority of web hosts today offer support only for the latest version of PHP and abandon the older versions. We, however, have decided to let you select the version that your very own websites require. Our Linux semi-dedicated servers support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, which goes to say that you will be able to use both older and newer scripts without forfeiting any custom settings or frittering away time and energy attempting to make your sites compatible with the web hosting platform. The current version can be changed through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and such an update will apply to the entire semi-dedicated account, but you will also have the ability to specify a different version of PHP for each individual website hosted in your account using an .htaccess file.