PHP hosting on a server of your own

What PHP is

PHP is the language a very large share of the web is written in, and it is built for exactly this job: a request arrives, a script runs, a page or a response goes back. It has been in continuous use and continuous development for three decades, which is why almost every hosting tool, library and framework you might reach for already supports it.

Why teams build on PHP

PHP is the pragmatic choice when you want to run something that already exists — a bespoke application, an older codebase, a framework of your own choosing — rather than adopt whatever a platform installs for you. Hosting for it is universal, the people who can maintain it are not scarce, and a modern PHP application is considerably faster than its reputation suggests.

What you get with the server

• The whole machine, with root access — not a share of one. You set the PHP version, the extensions, the memory limits and the execution times yourself, rather than living inside limits somebody else chose for a shared box.
• You choose the stack profile when the server is built, PHP among them, and it is recorded against the machine — so the server you ordered is the server you get.
• Backups are included and taken automatically, with the option to keep a month of the file system and two of the databases, so a bad deploy is something you roll back rather than something you rebuild.
• You choose the data centre, and the range runs in eight of them across North America, Europe and Asia — so the server sits near the users or the database it talks to most.

Plans and pricing

Ten sizes, from a single core up to forty-eight. Every one is a whole machine — the resources on the card are yours, not a share of somebody else's.

Where to go next

The pages people usually read after this one — the platform underneath, the rest of the range, and the help you get once you are here.

• Managed cloud serversThe full range of machines, every size and what each one costs.
• The shared platformWhat every managed plan runs on — the specification, the allowances and the tools.
• One-click applicationsEverything else you can install in a click, with a page for each of the popular ones.
• Move an existing siteWe copy the site and map the old URLs to the new ones, so the rankings come with it.
• Site speed-upA hands-on engineering pass over one site: caching, images, fonts and the database.
• Knowledge baseGuides for setup, DNS, email, SSL and everything after you are live.

Questions people ask before they buy