Hosting for every app you want to run

Near enough all of them. Content systems: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Ghost, Concrete CMS. Shops: WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, OpenCart. PHP frameworks like Laravel and Symfony. Community software along the lines of phpBB, MyBB and MediaWiki. Learning platforms such as Moodle. And whatever custom PHP application you happen to write yourself. The Softaculous installer on its own reaches more than 240 popular scripts across those categories, and anything missing from that list can still go on by hand over SSH or SFTP. Underneath the lot sits an ordinary, well-equipped PHP and MySQL stack, with versions you select and the usual extensions available, so software written for shared hosting generally just works. What's worth checking before you install is the app's own requirements: which PHP release it supports, which extensions it wants. Both of those you set from the control panel yourself. Not certain about a particular piece of software? Ask us, and our team will confirm whether it fits.

Not for the well-known platforms, no. In Softaculous you pick the app, say which domain and which folder it should live in, set an admin username and password, and the installer finishes the job in seconds: database created, configuration written, login ready to use. Nothing needs editing by hand at any stage. That is how most people here get WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla or Magento online in the first place. Plenty of those installs will also keep themselves updated on their own schedule, which spares you a manual maintenance round every few weeks. Would you rather hold the reins yourself, deploying your own code, a framework project, or some script the catalogue has never heard of? SFTP, SSH, Git and phpMyAdmin all come with the account, so the manual route is properly supported rather than merely tolerated. Either way, our support team sits there round the clock for the install that goes sideways.

Yes, on any plan that permits multiple websites. Several different apps can sit side by side under one account: a WordPress blog, a Laravel dashboard and a Joomla site, say, each with its own domain, its own database and its own settings, kept cleanly apart from the others. PHP versions are selectable per site, so one app can run on the newest release while a second stays on the older version its plugins are certified against, and neither one trips over the other. Every application gets its own document root, which keeps files tidy and isolated even though they all share the same fast NVMe server underneath. That suits anyone consolidating a few projects, keeping a staging copy next to a live site, or looking after a small portfolio of sites. Planning to manage a lot of separate client sites? Check the website limit printed on each plan and take a tier with the headroom for it.

Pick from several current PHP 8.x releases on a per-site basis, and different apps inside one account can sit on different versions, so nothing forces you to upgrade the lot in one go. Extensions get toggled alongside the version: GD and Imagick for images, mbstring and intl for handling text, cURL, PDO and the MySQL drivers, OPcache, zip, bcmath and a good few besides, all from the control panel rather than a ticket. Matching the exact requirements of Magento, Laravel or some ageing legacy application becomes straightforward. That same screen exposes the php.ini values busy software cares about, memory_limit and max_execution_time among them, along with the upload size limits, which gives a shop pushing through large product imports or a CMS taking big media files the headroom it needs. Change a version, flip an extension, and it takes effect quickly. Tuning the environment for a new app is a couple of minutes' work, not an afternoon.

Whatever the platform, we move it across for you and charge nothing for the work. Once you have signed up, open a ticket with the details of your current host, and our team shifts the whole application over: the files, the database, and the configuration that ties the two together. We then bring the app up on our servers and check it renders and behaves properly before a single visitor is affected, which means faults get found and fixed ahead of go-live rather than after it. When you are satisfied, we help you point the domain across, and since most transfers finish inside about 24 hours, downtime stays small. A WordPress site, a WooCommerce or Magento store, a Laravel project, a bespoke PHP app: the process runs the same way for all of them. Something unusual in your setup, a custom cron job, a specific extension, an external service it talks to? Say so in the ticket and we will see it comes across and keeps working.

Each major platform gets a page of its own, with guidance pitched at how that software actually behaves: the PHP version and extensions it prefers, the resources a busy install tends to eat, and the tools you will end up reaching for. Below the surface they all sit on one foundation, though. Fast NVMe storage, LiteSpeed-class caching, free auto-renewing SSL, daily automatic backups and 24/7 human support come with every tier. What you are really choosing is how much resource you need and how many sites you want to run, not a fundamentally different product, and moving up a plan later never means reinstalling anything. Best approach: follow the link for your app in the grid above, read the advice written for it, then take the tier that matches your traffic and your catalogue. A project spanning several apps can live on any multi-site plan, and if you are unsure which one fits, our team will point you at it.