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

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

PHP, which is a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is among the most popular general-purpose scripting languages that are available out there. Any website or app based on PHP will run on a given server provided that a PHP module is activated, which renders the language absolutely universal and it’s not a big surprise that there are actually a few million servers that support it and hundreds of millions of PHP-powered sites hosted on them. PHP is preferred over HTML because it permits you to build a dynamic serving website with tons of features. A PHP-based community web portal, for example, will display unique web content to each user in spite of the fact that the page URL will remain the same. In comparison, HTML websites are static and the content on the pages can be updated only manually. Just like any other software program, PHP has several versions and the one that was used whilst setting up a given website must be set up on the server in order for the site to work faultlessly.

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

In case you’ve got a site based on a previous PHP version and you have committed time and effort to setting it up, fixing safety gaps and inserting web page content, you will need to find a web hosting service that can support it, as the vast majority of web hosting companies these days offer only the most recently released version of PHP and drop the earlier ones. We, however, have decided to allow you to choose the version that your own sites require. Our Linux semi-dedicated packages support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8, which goes to say that you will be able to run both newer and older scripts without forfeiting any manual tweaks or misspending time and efforts striving to make your sites compatible with the hosting platform. You can change the current version through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and such a change will apply to the whole semi-dedicated server account, but you’ll also be able to specify a different version for each site hosted in your account by means of an .htaccess config file.