PHP web hosting

If PHP programming language is the name of your game, a PHP host is the way to go for you. As it's shared web hosting you'll be able to get your hands on it at a low price. Simply read our reviews and pick the hosting provider you feel the most suitable for you. We rank all the best PHP hosts on the market!

Rank	Plan	Price	Rating
21	ShinySite Silver	$4.95	93%	Sign up now Read review
22	Windows Hosting	$9.95	94%	Sign up now Read review
23	Baby	$8.53	92%	Sign up now Read review
24	Linux Hosting	$4.76	93%	Sign up now Read review
25	Linux Web Hosting	$4.95	87%	Sign up now Read review
26	Gold	$5.95	92%	Sign up now Read review
27	Base-Host	$5.95	85%	Sign up now Read review
28	GX01	$4.44	96%	Sign up now Read review
29	Max	$9.00	93%	Sign up now Read review
30	Gold	$5.95	92%	Sign up now Read review

What is PHP Hosting

PHP Hosting is website hosting that uses and fully supports the PHP programming language. Most PHP Hosts offer inexpensive plans using the LAMP (Linux, operating system, Apache, server software, MySQL, database, and PHP and/or Perl, programming language) structure.

Although PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, after several changes on the Internet it now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is an open source Web development language. Open source here means that PHP is completely free. PHP commands are written in HTML and are executed on the server side. PHP is a powerful language and has a wide variety of applications. It is commonly used in building dynamic websites. PHP is also extremely popular programming language with a number of strengths.

PHP was adapted from Perl and C. If you have any experience with these programming languages then picking up PHP should be fairly easy. However, if you have no experience in programming, PHP is a great way to start. A lot of components for PHP are available for free. PHP is a very popular language so finding answers to your programming questions or finding tutorials on building various types of Web pages are also available free on the Net.

Some of the problems faced by PHP are that it does not allow you to detect and clean harmful and bogus data put in by a hacker. The PHP language carries more than 3,000 commands which can prove to be complicated. Some PHP extensions are not compatible with some Web Server software which may lead to crashes.