PHP Hosting From A2 Hosting

Currently Supporting PHP 5.2.12

Every web hosting package at A2 Hosting includes the amazing power of PHP5. Read on for information about what PHP is, what the benefits of using PHP are, the incredible PHP website hosting support you will receive from A2 Hosting and much more.

What Is PHP?

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Below is an explanation of three key components of PHP to help advance your understanding of this technology in case you are unfamiliar with it.

• 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 that the page is viewed. This offers visitors a fresh experience each time the page is viewed 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 or information 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.

PHP 5 Web Hosting Support at A2 Hosting

A2 Hosting was one of the first web hosts to offer PHP5 hosting. In fact, our own web page is powered by PHP! Be assured that A2 Hosting's Guru Crew has the experience and know-how to give you the quality PHP support that you expect. If you're looking for the incredible power of Fantastico and cPanel with PHP5, you've come to the right place.

A2 Hosting offers quality web, reseller, VPS and dedicated PHP web host packages that feature many of your favorite add-ons including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python, Ruby , SSH access and more at affordable A2 Hosting prices. A2 Hosting also supports AJAX, providing further evidence that A2 Hosting offers the ultimate developer friendly platform.

Advantages of Choosing a PHP Host

• PHP is a relatively easy scripting language to learn. Programmers with backgrounds in languages like, C and/or Perl should have no problem using PHP 5. There are also a large number of free online resources to learn more about this scripting language, like this free PHP Manual.
• 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 PHP5 is open-source, there are no licensing fees associated with it.

Additional PHP Host Modules Available From A2 Hosting

A2 Hosting 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
• 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