PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support

What's the actual difference between PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8? How come it's best to have them all available? How do you switch between them?

PHP, which is a bacronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is one of the most commonly used general-purpose server-side scripting languages out there. Any site or web app built using PHP will run on a given web server as long as a PHP module is enabled, which makes the language absolutely universal and it’s not really a surprise that there are actually a few million servers that support it and hundreds of millions of PHP-powered websites hosted on them. PHP is preferred over HTML owing to the fact that it enables you to create a dynamic site with many options. A PHP-based community website, for instance, will serve unique content to each visitor despite the fact that the page URL won’t change. In contrast, HTML-based sites are static and the page content itself can be updated only manually. Just like any other piece of software, PHP has different versions and the one that was used while setting up a certain website must be available on the web server in order for the site to work properly.

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

We’ve decided not to prevent our current and potential clients from choosing what PHP version their sites will use, which implies that if you get a website hosting plan from our company, you will be able to pick between versions 4, 5 and 7, not only for the account itself, but also for each individual domain hosted by you. This can be accomplished with only one click from our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel via which all shared web hosting accounts are managed, which is why you will not need any programming or technical expertise. You’ll be able to host sites based on both new and old PHP-based scripts without trouble, so if you want to leave your present web hosting vendor and switch over to us, you can be certain that all the sites that you’ve built through the years will continue to work properly.

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

It’s our unswerving conviction that years spent developing a site shouldn’t go down the tubes, so in case you get a semi-dedicated server from our company, you will be able to run any script, irrespective of whether it is old or new. Unlike lots of hosting providers, we support several different PHP versions on our innovative cloud platform – 4, 5 and 7. Not only will you be able to activate the required version through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, but you will also have the option to select a different version for each single website. This can be done merely by adding an .htaccess file to the root folder of the given site. You can change the current version either for a single website or for the whole account and the update will take effect in less than several minutes. With our hosting services, you can be certain that you will never experience any website compatibility problems.