PHP is one of the most widely used web programming languages. It’s rather popular as it’s free software, which you can use to create interactive sites such as community websites, online shopping portals or online teaching sites as opposed to static HTML-based websites. A PHP module should be installed on the web server where a PHP-driven site is hosted so that its source code can be ‘translated’. Since there are no license taxes for this type of module and the language provides innumerable options for the web-based apps that you create, there’re 100s of millions of PHP websites. Besides, there’re a myriad of PHP-based scripts, which you can use for your sites without the need to have any programming capabilities. As there are a couple of PHP versions, you need to check if the exact same version that you used while setting up your site is available on the web server too.

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

Our web hosting servers support several PHP versions, which suggests that your websites will run faultlessly no matter if your PHP scripts are outdated. We acknowledge the fact that an old site does not always mean an insecure one as you may have done a lot of code modifications. This is the reason why we support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 and you can select which version will be enabled for your web hosting account. You can change the version with just one single mouse click through your Hepsia Control Panel and the new settings will take effect immediately. In case you want to run both older and newer scripts, there’s even an option to use a different version of PHP for each domain of yours at the same time.

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

Even if your sites were built with an older version of PHP, you’ll be able to host them in a semi-dedicated server account from us, as we support multiple versions running at the same time on our semi-dedicated servers and each of them can be activated for your account with just one click from our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel. Other than the newest PHP 8, we also offer support for 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, which has already been abandoned by most web hosting providers, but we maintain that you should not be compelled to modify a website that took years to set up, as older scripting language syntax does not always equal safety weaknesses. On the contrary, an adequately maintained site using PHP 4 can be more secure than an inadequately maintained one using PHP 5. For your convenience, we will also give you the opportunity to specify a different PHP version for each individual site within your account.