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 can you switch between them?
PHP, which is an acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is among the most popular curly-bracket programming languages available out there. Any site or web-based app created using PHP will run on a given server on the condition that a PHP module is installed, which renders the language truly universal and it’s not very surprising that there are actually a couple of million web servers that support it and 100s of millions of PHP websites running on them. PHP is preferred over HTML owing to the fact that it enables you to create a responsive site with tons of different options. A PHP-based community website, for instance, will show unique content to each user irrespective of the fact that the URL will remain unchanged. In contrast, HTML sites are static and the page content itself can be updated only manually. Like any other software, PHP has several versions and the version that was used whilst developing a specific website must be configured on the web server in order for the site to work flawlessly.
PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 Support in Shared Hosting
Our shared hosting servers support several versions of PHP, which goes to say that your websites will run correctly even if your scripts are outdated. We acknowledge the fact that an old site does not automatically equal a vulnerable one as you may have carried out a lot of modifications to its code. This is the reason why we support PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7 and PHP 8 and you can choose which one will be active for your shared web hosting account. The version can be changed with a single mouse click inside your Hepsia Control Panel and the update will be applied instantly. In case you want to run both newer and older scripts, there is even a possibility to use a different PHP version for each domain of yours simultaneously.