PHP Web Hosting Tutorial
This lens will talk about web hosting that suit with PHP application. We will learn about what is PHP, what application is using PHP and the minimal requirement to host PHP application.
We will also learn to setup some popular PHP application like wordpress, joomla, image gallery, etc.
Please enjoy! Click here for Installing Wordpress tutorial.
Popular PHP Web Hosting
History of PHP
PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a scripting language designed for producing server side dynamic web pages.It was orignally created by Rasmus Lerdorf. The PHP Group acquired the main PHP implementation.
PHP is released under the PHP License. The Free Software Foundation considers it to be free software.
Now, PHP is the most popular web development language. It become popular because of its easy to produce dynamic web pages.
Almost all web hosting supports PHP.
Links:
Official PHP website
More Information about PHP
StartLogic Web Hosting
Features:
Price: $5.95
Storage: Unlimited
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Point and Click Web Site Builder
Choice of Shopping Carts
$80 Google/Yahoo Credit
Free RatePoint Subscription
Instant Setup!
Host Unlimited Domains
Latest PHP Release Information
New PHP version releases periodically. The new release will cover new features or some bugs fixed.
Here are the list of latest PHP release. You can download the latest version from their official site or the mirror site.
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Features:
Price: $4.95
Storage: 1,500 GB
Bandwith: 15,000 GB
E-Commerce Enabled
Marketing / Content Package
$30 Google Credit
$50 Yahoo Credit
Google Webmaster Tools
RatePoint 60-Day Free Membership
Free Web-site Builder
Host Unlimited Domains
What type of web hosting support for PHP?
There are many web hosting providers in the world. I think there are thousands providers online. If you search in google with 'web hosting' keyword, you will get millions of pages.Each web hosting has different features and advantage. Almost of all web hosting provide PHP engine for their customer. You can see their feature via their site or call their tech support.
PHP releases PHP 5 for years. But some web hosting still provide PHP 4 version. PHP 5 is newer and better than previous version. You should note this.
Choose web hosting that already provide PHP 5 version. Almost all web application build in PHP 4 will work at PHP 5. But not all web pages that build in PHP 5 will work at PHP 4.
Latest PHP News
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Vistapages HostingFeatures:
Price: $4.95
Storage: Unlimited
Bandiwth: Unlimited
Free Domain for life!
Free Yahoo & MSN Ad Credit
Free Setup
Popular PHP Web Applications
Wordpress
Wordpress is the most popular blogging script build in PHP. You can easily publish your blog with this script. Almost all web hostings have the preinstalled script for this application. If they are not provide this script you can download from their official website: wordpress.org
phpBB
phpBB is the most popular PHP forum that you can get for free. Almost all web hostings also provide this script. You can download here: phpBB
Other Applications
Usually each web hosting application installer. The popular installer is Fantastico. It can install many popular PHP applications with Fantastico.
LunarPages Web Hosting

LunarPages Hosting
Features:
Price: $4.95
Storage: 1,500 GB
Bandwith: 15,000 GB
Unlimited Databases/Email/FTP Accounts
Unlimited Add-on Domains Included FREE!
Ruby on Rails 6, PostGReSQL
JSP/ASP Available
Bonus Programs $775 Included
