PHP, which is an abbreviation for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is one of the most famous general-purpose server-side coding languages available out there. Any website or web app based on PHP will run on a given server on the condition that a PHP module is activated, which makes the language truly universal and it comes as no surprise that there are several million servers that support it and hundreds of millions of PHP-powered websites running on them. PHP is preferred over HTML due to the fact that it allows you to create an interactive website with a large number of features. A PHP-based social networking website, for example, will show unique content to each visitor even though the page URL will be the same. By contrast, HTML sites are static and the page content itself can be edited only manually. Just like any other software program, PHP has different versions and the one that was used while setting up a certain website must be enabled on the web server in order for the site to work correctly.
PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Hosting
In case you purchase a hosting package from us, you will never need to speculate as to whether your sites are compatible with the hosting platform, since multiple PHP versions are activated on our servers for your convenience’s sake. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to select PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 with only one single click and in case you would like to change the version, the update will be applied right away. Thus, several years of work on websites built with an older version will not be wasted. Our hosting platform will even allow you to use a different PHP version for each domain hosted in your account, which means that you can run newer and older scripts simultaneously. Most web hosting providers on the market support one, sometimes two versions of PHP. In stark contrast with them, we strongly believe that you should be the one to pick the version that your own sites will use.