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? Why is it best to have them all available? How do you switch between them?
PHP is one of the most commonly used server-side coding languages. It’s extremely popular because it’s free software, which you can use to create interactive websites like community sites, web shops or e-teaching websites as opposed to static HTML sites. A PHP module should be present on the web server where a PHP-powered site is hosted so that its source code can be read. As there are no license fees for such a module and the language itself offers limitless possibilities for the Internet apps that you set up, there’re 100s of millions of PHP websites. On top of that, there’re a multitude of open-source PHP-based scripts, which you can use for your sites without needing to possess any coding know-how. Given the fact that there are a couple of versions of PHP, you have to verify that the same version that you used while setting up your site is installed on the web server too.
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PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Cloud Web Hosting
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cloud web hosting, you’ll be able to select which PHP version will be enabled for your shared account, since multiple versions are installed on our servers. With just one click of the mouse, you will be able to switch between PHP 4, 5, 7 and whenever a new version is introduced in the future, we’ll add it to the Hepsia hosting Control Panel without removing the older versions. Thus, you’ll be able to host all the websites that you’ve set up throughout the years. Unlike a lot of other web hosting suppliers, we won’t force you to update such sites, because a script may be outdated, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s vulnerable as you may have modified its code to fill security breaches. For your convenience’s sake, you will even be able to set a different PHP version for each individual website that you host in your shared hosting account.
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PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Semi-dedicated Servers
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Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans support multiple versions of PHP, which implies that you will be able to use all the apps that you’ve created through the years. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes bundled with every single account, will permit you to set the version that you need with only one mouse click. You can choose between PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8. If you wish to host multiple websites under the very same account and they have various requirements with respect to the hosting environment, you will be able to specify a different version for each of them regardless of which version is enabled for the account as a whole. This is possible owing to our in-house built cloud platform, which allows us to run different versions of PHP at the same time. By contrast, the majority of hosting companies normally offer one, in exceptionally rare cases – two versions.