PHP Web Hosting

PHP is the most popular programming language for website creation in the world. PHP originally was named after “Personal Home Page”, it is now said to stand for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”. PHP was created by Canadian programmer of Danish origin Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 when he tried to improve his own personal website and created a special engine which embeds HTML instead of calling a special file from the server. The language was simple and was presented as open source. The PHP was based on Perl scripts. In 1997 two Israeli programmers rewrote the core engine and PHP3 was born. Later they have developed a Zend Network.

PHP 5.3 is Now Available.

PHP is compatible with almost all operating systems. It works with the main databases, therefore it is so popular and easy to use. The PHP module mod_php is the most popular module on the Apache server. PHP is one of the four main hosting technologies among Linux OS, Apache server and MySQL database. The all four makes a hosting term LAMP which is understandable by all system administrators.

PHP hosting is an essential one in modern hosting industry therefore all the hosting companies offer PHP hosting in their free hosting, shared hosting, cloud VPS hosting plans. Dedicated server hosting customers must install the PHP by themselves.

Features of PHP Hosting

The main features of PHP hosting is that PHP is universal programming language. Being a general purpose language means that all the programmer know it and can easily manage. The main competitor ASP.NET is not so popular as it requires specific knowledge and skills while PHP is considered the basic programming language every programmer knows.

Compatibility with different operational systems is another feature. Linux, Windows, Unix, MacOS and others can run PHP versions. There is one exception. 64 bit Windows version cannot be compatible with PHP 5.3, but it will be solved in PHP 6 which will be released any time.

PHP hosting is a secure one, however the loopholes of the PHP code can be used by hackers to harm the website or even server. Therefore it is highly recommended to pay more attention to the security issues of the website. The programmer is responsible for security of the website code.

PHP helps drive the MySQL database with the simple tools, therefore it is used for the large scale websites. Dynamic and data-rich sites like Wikipedia, Facebook and Yahoo take advantage of PHP scripts.

Other popular PHP-based applications include the phpBB message forum, the WordPress blog script, the GBook guestbook, the osCommerce and CubeCart shopping carts, PHPlist mailing list management system, WebCalendar, and the PHP-Nuke and Drupal content management systems. PHP is the main engine of majority of most popular web applications.

PHP Hosting in Host1Plus

Host1Plus offers affordable PHP hosting plans in all of the services. The main hosting plan where PHP is used is shared hosting. Shared hosting is based on LAMP parameters where PHP is among Linux, Apache and MySQL. The main shared hosting applications uses PHP, therefore the Host1Plus servers are fully compatible with all the popular versions (PHP 4 and PHP 5).

In order to use the applications, the customer actually do not need the PHP programming knowledge, as shared hosting plans in Host1Plus uses a special installation tools such as Softaculous or Installatron, which configures PHP hosting settings to the needed application requirements automatically.

VPS hosting plans with popular control panels also can manage PHP settings using a graphical user interface. All you need to do is install the Linux distribution with control panel. You can select DirectAdmin, cPanel or ISPconfig tools which have great PHP management tools.

Host1Plus PHP hosting is supported by our unbeatable customer support team, therefor you can ask any questions about PHP hosting in English, Russian, Lithuanian and German. PHP hosting is also available in all Host1Plus locations – USA, UK, Lithuania, Netherlands, Germany and Singapore. PHP setup and installation is free as PHP is an open source programming language.

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