Take Control Over Your PHP Web Hosting!

Each of our all-inclusive web hosting, reseller hosting, cPanel VPS hosting and dedicated hosting packages are hosted on servers optimized for PHP.

Where else do you get to decide which version of PHP you use? Choosing is as easy as logging into your cPanel control panel and selecting from the available PHP version options. This is just another reason why A2 Hosting is the best PHP hosting provider around. Sign up today for your PHP website hosting account!

PHP Hosting with cPanel

It couldn't be easier to choose the version of PHP you use with your hosting account. Below are the PHP version selection instructions:

1. Log into your cPanel control panel.
2. Click the PHP Version icon under the Software/Services menu.
3. Click on the PHP version you want to use from the available options and click the submit button.

PHP Web Hosting Support at A2 Hosting

A2 Hosting is an award winning PHP 5 Hosting provider. We were one of the very first web hosts to offer PHP5 hosting and PHP6 hosting. Be assured that A2 Hosting's 24/7 tech support team has the experience and know-how to give you the exceptional PHP support that you expect.

Our quality packages feature many of your favorite add-ons including MySQL, PostgreSQL,Python, Ruby , SSH access and more. Our PHP web host packages also support AJAX providing further evidence that A2 Hosting offers the ultimate developer friendly platform. Read more about A2 Hosting's top-notch, affordable PHP hosting.

Advantages of Choosing Our Linux PHP Hosting

• PHP is a relatively easy scripting language to learn. Programmers with backgrounds in languages like C or Perl should have no problem using PHP. There are also a large number of free online resources to learn more about this scripting language.
• PHP is a very secure and stable scripting language because it is an open-source technology. The open-source community is constantly searching to improve, patch and fix any bugs found within PHP.
• PHP loads and runs fast, while not slowing other processes down. This stems from the fact that PHP runs in its own memory space.
• PHP is very flexible because it can connect to a number of different databases, with MySQL being the most popular. Learn more about our PHP MySQL hosting.
• PHP is very cost-effective. Since PHP is open-source, there are no licensing fees associated with it.

What Is PHP?

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Below is an explanation of three key components of PHP.

• PHP is a scripting language. A scripting language is used to write programs that control software applications.
• PHP is best known for creating dynamic web pages. A dynamic web page is created in real-time from databases at the same time the page is viewed. This offers visitors a fresh experience each time the page is seen because there is a constant flow of new information.
• PHP is a server-side script. This is a technology that delivers custom HTML by processing the code on the web server before it is sent to the computer trying to access the information. The user accessing the website does not need a special browser or plug-in to see a site written in PHP. This is in contrast to client-side scripting which requires the computer trying to reach the website to process the code before it can be viewed.

Additional PHP Host Modules Available From A2Hosting

A2Hosting provides the following PHP Modules with all of our web, reseller, and semi-dedicated hosting packages. MySQL 5.0.x support also comes with every account, featuring the new MySQLi extension for PHP5.

We are happy to install any other PHP module or extension that you need as long as they don't impact server stability and security. These will be handled on a case-by-case basis. If you have any questions, please feel free to submit a Support Ticket.

• Zend Optimizer
• ionCube
• Calendar
• cURL (with SSL)
• Date
• DOM
• XML
• libXML
• SimpleXML
• XMLRPC
• XSL / XSLT / EXSLT
• EXIF
• FTP
• GD (with FreeType)
• GetText
• IMAP
• mbstring (Multibyte Support)
• mcrypt
• mhash
• PDO (sqlite2, sqlite, mysql, pgsql)
• JSON

• MySQL
• MySQLi
• ODBC
• PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)
• PEAR
• PostgreSQL (pgsql)
• SOAP
• Sockets
• SPL
• SQLite (SQLite2 and SQLite3)
• Tidy (libtidy)
• Zlib
• Zip
• BCMath
• ctype
• iconv
• PSpell
• Session
• Tokenizer
• WDDX