PHP 5.6 comes to an end

For most of our customers this will not be a problem anymore, since you always keep up with the updates of your code you are of course already using PHP 7.x! Besides the security of your website, PHP 7.x also has a very positive impact on the speed of your Hosting.
It was already known that PHP 5.6 was going to expire, but at the end of this year 2018 it really happened. So if you are still using the older PHP 5.6 version then it is high time to make your website suitable for PHP 7.x.

PHP and your website

At MijnHostingPartner.nl we strive to always be ahead of such updates as it has great impact on your website. Whether it is a WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or any other PHP Content Management system.
Not sure if you are using PHP in your website or something else? Then there is a good chance that you are running PHP as this is where the majority (still) of the internet runs. The popular Content Management Systems such as WordPress have taken care of this by being able to put a website together without any coding experience.

How can you select the latest PHP version?

If you want to select the latest available PHP version in your hosting space you can do this easily via the control panel. You go to websites in the control panel, select your domain name and go to the tab extensions. Here you will see the ASP.NET Hosting version and the PHP hosting version.

ASP.NET is a coding language that MijnHostingPartner.nl also supports since we run Windows IIS servers. Do you want to see the steps a bit clearer using screenshots? Then take a look at our knowledge base. There we cover most things like this quite extensively.

What changes for you?

With PHP 7.x the speed of your website will go up. The speed of a website is extremely important, not only for your visitors but also for search engines like Google and Bing. For the rest, a number of obsolete and unsafe features disappear. For example, the MySQL() function will be replaced by its successors MySQLi and PDO. Would you like to see the full list of changes? Then take a look at PHP.NET. This is the official PHP website where everything is documented.
If you have any questions about the impact on your website, please feel free to join us in our chat. Our staff will be able to give you a push in the right direction.