PHP web hosting
Build a fast, dynamic website with OVHcloud PHP web hosting solutions
Choosing a high-quality PHP web hosting plan is essential for optimal performance, and a positive user experience on your website. Find out how our PHP hosting solutions can help you get the most out of your online presence.
Quick, reliable PHP hosting for your online platform
PHP hosting is a type of web hosting plan specially designed for websites that use PHP programming language. It offers optimal performance, enhanced security, and compatibility with the most popular content management systems (CMS), such as WordPress and PrestaShop.
Advantages of our PHP hosting solutions
By opting for our PHP web hosting plans, you get many advantages to help you optimise your website and stand out from the competition.
Ultra-fast loading times
The latest major versions of PHP include many optimisations, so you will experience improved loading speeds for your webpages. These versions are available on all of our PHP web hosting plans.
Improved performance
PHP is an open-source programming language, compatible with all major operating systems. It is flexible, and can also handle high volumes of databases. When combined with our hosting plans, this programming language is the perfect solution for building a website.
Advanced security features
We take care of PHP updates for you, and we offer new versions as soon as they are released in beta mode. We also manage updates to currently-supported versions, to protect you against security vulnerabilities.
Our PHP hosting plans
Get a free domain name for one year by subscribing to one of our PHP web hosting plans! For more information, please refer to our hosting comparison.
Domain name creation and transfer is free for the first year, then renewals are charged at the annual price of the extension from the following list: .com, .net, .biz, .info, .org, .name, .fr, .re, .eu, .be, .es, .it, .de, .at, .co.uk, .me.uk, .org.uk, .nl, .us, .ca, .cz, .ch, .in, .lt, .dk, .pm, .so, .se, .yt, .tf , .wf, .pt, .pl, .ovh, .xyz. Not valid for extensions that include free transfer.
1 free domain name*
100 GB disk space
10 email addresses
1-click CMS
Unlimited FTP access
1 free domain name*
250 GB disk space
100 email addresses
1-click CMS
Unlimited SSH access
1 free domain name*
500 GB disk space
Up to 1000 email addresses
1-click CMS
Unlimited SSH access
High-performance resources
Web Cloud databases 512 MB RAM
CDN Basic
Why choose our PHP web hosting plans?
Our PHP web hosting plans meet the requirements of the most popular CMS tools, as well as applications made up of several external libraries (compatible with Composer). We also optimise our infrastructures to ensure the best possible performance for websites built using the most popular CMS tools.
With multisite management, you can manage multiple websites on a single web hosting plan via a global disk space, which can be divided between your websites.
Our solutions are hosted in our datacentres around the world, and comply with all local data protection regulations. They also benefit from our powerful anti-DDoS protection, included with all of our solutions.
With an OVHcloud hosting plan, you get a secure, flexible and high-performance PHP web hosting plan hosted as close as possible to your customers.
What PHP versions are supported?
Our web hosting solutions support PHP versions 5.4 to 8.2. Please note, however, that some of them only work with specific runtime environments.
- Legacy, Stable: versions 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and 7.0.
- Stable: versions 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3.
- Stable64: versions 7.4, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2.
Find out how to change the PHP version on an OVHcloud Web Hosting plan.
Maximise your website’s performance with our PHP web hosting plans
The SEO advantages of a PHP hosting plan
The use of PHP programming language on a PHP hosting plan can present an advantage in terms of natural SEO. With PHP, you can create dynamic web pages that can be easily updated. This way, your content is easy to update on a regular basis — which represents a key part of improving your website’s SEO ranking.
Furthermore, with the multisite management offered by OVHcloud web hosting plans, you can manage multiple websites on your hosting plan. For example, you can choose from a range of languages that suit your geographical location, and adapt your content to suit your local customer base.
How a PHP web hosting plan can improve user experience
PHP is a quick, efficient web development language that helps reduce loading times for your webpages. It also offers a lot of flexibility in the way you structure your website, so you can optimise the organisation of your content and improve the overall browsing experience.
Main reasons why a PHP hosting plan is essential for an e-commerce website
- Data management: PHP is often used in combination with data storage solutions such as MySQL to store and manage product, order and customer information. The features of this language make it easy to organise the data stored, and display it properly on the website (user profile, contents of the shopping cart, order summary, etc.).
- Dynamic features: Most e-commerce websites require features such as adding products to the shopping cart, updating quantities, and displaying information in real time. This makes PHP a perfect option for e-commerce websites.
- Security: An e-commerce website processes sensitive data, such as customer payment and delivery information. PHP offers increased security compared to other programming languages. It has many built-in security features (form validation, secure session management, etc.) to help protect this information.
- Scalability: An e-commerce website often has to deal with traffic spikes and changing market trends. Since PHP is a flexible scripting language, you can easily modify and update your e-commerce website’s features to adapt to the changing needs of your market and customers.
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Getting started with our PHP hosting plans
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Your questions answered
What is PHP?
PHP is a free, open-source development language. It is often combined with a database, and mainly enables the development of dynamic and interactive applications and websites, as well as blogs, CMS and other sophisticated applications. It is a popular language due to its ease of use, flexibility and compatibility with several operating systems — such as Windows, Linux and macOS X.
What is a PHP hosting plan?
PHP hosting plans are cloud hosting solutions designed to host websites built using PHP. Configured to run PHP scripts, this type of hosting can provide dynamic content and optimise your website’s interactivity. With PHP, you can also connect to MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL database management systems, for example.
What are the advantages of a PHP hosting plan?
This type of hosting is designed for PHP, the programming language that has been used to build the most popular content management systems (CMS), such as WordPress (creating a blog), Drupal (website creation), PrestaShop (creating an online store) and technical frameworks such as Lavarel, Symfony and Zend Framework.
Since it is open-source, it has a large and very active community of developers sharing free advice, code and tips. PHP web hosting is also adapted to suit all budgets. It doesn't require a lot of system resources to operate, and is generally more affordable.
Why opt for a PHP hosting plan?
The best programming language for hosting a website will depend on your requirements. However, there are several reasons why a PHP hosting plan might be the best choice.
PHP is one of the most popular programming languages for building dynamic websites. As a result, it is widely adopted by the community and supported by many hosting platforms. It is also relatively easy to learn as a language, which makes development faster and more effective for those who are new to coding. Furthermore, the latest PHP versions have significantly improved the execution speed of scripts, making this language a powerful option for hosting high-traffic websites. Finally, PHP is generally used with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB — so it facilitates data integration and management for websites.
Does a PHP hosting plan include SSH access?
SSH (Secure Shell) access provides remote, secure access to a server’s command line. This is particularly useful for tasks such as configuring scripts or managing files.
Not all PHP web hosting plans offer SSH access. For example, at OVHcloud, it is included with our PHP web hosting plans, starting with the Professional Hosting plan .
Which CMSs are compatible with PHP hosting?
Most popular content management systems (CMS) are compatible with a PHP web hosting solution, as CMS tools themselves are generally built using PHP language. Here are a few examples:
- WordPress: One of the most well-known CMS tools, developed entirely using the PHP programming language. It is easy to install, and offers a high degree of flexibility with the wide range of available themes and plug-ins.
- Joomla!: Another popular CMS developed in PHP, Joomla! offers a wide range of features and customisation options, especially for e-commerce and business websites.
- Drupal: This open-source CMS is known for being a reliable, secure content management system. It is particularly well-suited to large organisations and the creation of complex websites.
- PrestaShop: This is also an open-source CMS developed in PHP, for creating e-commerce websites. It is ideal for managing products, orders, shipments and payments for online sales websites.