Why use a PHP web hosting service?

PHP web hosting services are popular for good reason. There are other types of web hosting available, but PHP is well-established, good value and helps you build great websites.

PHP began as a simple computer script. It then developed into the computer world's most widely-used scripting language and became the shortened term for Hypertext Preprocessor.

As good as you can get

PHP is a server-side, open source, HTML-embedded scripting language. What this means is that PHP web hosting is as good a hosting service as you can get.

Server-side

A scripting language is a computer application. The PHP scripting language works within a web server to ensure you have as many features as possible for your website. 'Server-side' therefore refers to the fact that PHP is part of the server's set-up.

Open source

PHP is freely available to anyone. It's therefore possible to adapt PHP without infringing copyright. Hence programmers refer to PHP as 'open source'.

HTML

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) provides the means of building and displaying a document on the web. With PHP, the process of using HTML for website creation is easier than with other programmes.

Further benefits

As well as the above benefits, PHP works well with MySQL databases. It's also compatible with networks that use e-mail transmission formats such as IMAP and POP3. All these advantages make PHP web hosting by far your best option.