"PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
PHP, which is the acronym for Hypertext Preprocessor, is a server-side scripting language that is used in building web applications. It is one of the most popular open-source programming languages. This means that it is open, accessible, and freely distributed with licenses not restricting its integration with other software.
PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 as a tool for managing his online profile. He wrote it in the C programming language. Based on its originally intended purpose, he named it Personal Home Page (PHP). Lerdorf later combined it with his Form Interpreter to come up with PHP/FI in 1985. After slight remodelling by other developers, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, an updated PHP/FI 2 emerged. In 1998, it was further developed to PHP 3 which saw a massive adoption of the language.
PHP 4 was released in May 2000 and had a reworked core called the Zend Engine 1.0. The update brought about a significant boost in PHP’s speed and reliability. Aspects such as object-orientation, the Boolean type, and COM support also evolved. The consequent instalments of the software, version 4 and 5, were released in 2004 and 2006 respectively. Currently, it has reached version 7, which was released in November 2017.
Today, PHP has become ubiquitous with several reputable websites running on PHP code. Despite being wrongfully termed as a poor language by some elite programmers, sites like Facebook, Wikipedia, Flickr, Yahoo, Tumblr, WordPress, and Istockphoto have used it successfully. It has become more powerful and holds approximately 79.1% market share as a server-side language.
• It is fast and easy to use
• It is used by a large number of people, therefore solutions to most development problems are available.
• It integrates well with databases, file systems, and images
• Its garbage collection method is dynamic as it uses arrays
• It has a low barrier to entry
• It is secure
• It is an interpreted language compiled down to Opcode
• It uses threaded executors, which brings about scalability issues
• The quality of its frameworks differs due to the fact that they are free
• It is difficult to modify code behaviour
PHP is quite dynamic. It works well with other scripting languages such as HTML and is compatible with a wide variety of databases used for hosting services. Overall, it is cheap, secure, fast, and reliable making it a great option for web hosting and application development.
Offre | Rating | €/y | Type | Diskspace | Bandwidth |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
★
★
★
|
83.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Site5
|
0GB
0.0€/GB
|
0 GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
131.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Site5
|
0GB
0.0€/GB
|
0 GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
167.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Site5
|
0GB
0.0€/GB
|
0 GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
★
|
744.0€ |
VPS Hosting
at Site5
|
50GB
0.0€/GB
|
1000 GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
1068.0€ |
Cloud Hosting
at Site5
|
75GB
0.0€/GB
|
1500 GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
107.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Site5
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
11.88€ |
Shared Hosting
at 1&1
|
100GB
0.12€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
59.88€ |
Shared Hosting
at 1&1
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
107.88€ |
Shared Hosting
at 1&1
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
47.04€ |
Shared Hosting
at A2 Hosting
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
58.08€ |
Shared Hosting
at A2 Hosting
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
111.72€ |
Shared Hosting
at A2 Hosting
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
58.08€ |
Shared Hosting
at A2 Hosting
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
70.56€ |
Shared Hosting
at A2 Hosting
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
129.36€ |
Shared Hosting
at A2 Hosting
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
35.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Bluehost
|
50GB
0.71€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
71.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Bluehost
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
71.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Bluehost
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
47.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Dreamhost
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
131.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Dreamhost
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
119.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Dreamhost
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
95.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Dreamhost
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
224.16€ |
Shared Hosting
at Godaddy
|
60GB
3.74€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
280.2€ |
Shared Hosting
at Godaddy
|
90GB
3.11€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
392.28€ |
Shared Hosting
at Godaddy
|
120GB
3.27€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
560.52€ |
Shared Hosting
at Godaddy
|
150GB
3.74€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
175.08€ |
VPS Hosting
at Godaddy
|
40GB
4.38€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
33.0€ |
Shared Hosting
at Hostgator
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
47.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Hostgator
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
71.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Hostgator
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
2279.88€ |
Dedicated Servers
at Ikoula
|
6000GB
0.38€/GB
|
25 GB /mo
91.2€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
540.0€ |
Shared Hosting
at Infomaniak
|
4000GB
0.14€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
684.0€ |
Shared Hosting
at Infomaniak
|
4000GB
0.17€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
1008.0€ |
Shared Hosting
at Infomaniak
|
4000GB
0.25€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
76.68€ | Shared Hosting |
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
101.88€ | Shared Hosting |
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
176.52€ | Shared Hosting |
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
34.56€ |
Shared Hosting
at NameCheap
|
20GB
1.73€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
58.56€ |
Shared Hosting
at NameCheap
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
106.56€ |
Shared Hosting
at NameCheap
|
50GB
2.13€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
1079.88€ |
Dedicated Servers
at Ovh
|
960GB
1.12€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
1499.88€ |
Dedicated Servers
at Ovh
|
900GB
1.67€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
72.0€ |
Shared Hosting
at Planethoster
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
107.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Site5
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
143.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Site5
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
179.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Site5
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
42.0€ |
Shared Hosting
at StableHost
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
90.0€ |
Shared Hosting
at StableHost
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
342.0€ |
Shared Hosting
at StableHost
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
359.4€ |
VPS Hosting
at StableHost
|
100GB
3.59€/GB
|
4000 GB /mo
0.09€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
23.88€ | Shared Hosting |
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
47.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Hostpapa
|
100GB
0.47€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
47.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Hostpapa
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
155.4€ |
Shared Hosting
at Hostpapa
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
49.0€ |
Shared Hosting
at FatCow
|
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
53.88€ | Shared Hosting |
100GB
0.54€/GB
|
1000 GB /mo
0.05€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
70.68€ | Shared Hosting |
500GB
0.14€/GB
|
500 GB /mo
0.14€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
81.48€ | Shared Hosting |
∞GB
0.0€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
120.0€ |
Shared Hosting
at Webfaction
|
100GB
1.2€/GB
|
1000 GB /mo
0.12€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
1320.0€ |
VPS Hosting
at Dreamhost
|
240GB
5.5€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
322.92€ |
VPS Hosting
at Ovh
|
50GB
6.46€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
502.44€ |
VPS Hosting
at Ovh
|
100GB
5.02€/GB
|
∞ GB /mo
0.0€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
240.0€ |
Cloud Hosting
at Webfaction
|
15GB
16.0€/GB
|
1500 GB /mo
0.16€/GB
|
|
★
★
★
|
360.0€ |
Cloud Hosting
at Webfaction
|
45GB
8.0€/GB
|
2000 GB /mo
0.18€/GB
|
PHP is cool ! ... Do you want to get informations about other webhosting technologies and find supporting web hosting plans? If so, just have a look at these articles.
Drupal Frontpage Python PERL Magento Prestashop Woocommerce Django SSL Hosting ZenCart Moodle Ecommerce Shopify ASP SPIP Joomla Wordpress Ruby-On-Rails PHP Weebly Linux SSD Forum Cpanel Sharepoint