{"id":1458,"date":"2021-02-19T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2026-06-06T13:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:17:35","slug":"php-8-hosting-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/php-8-hosting-support\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP 8 Hosting Support on All HostArmada Hosting Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PHP 8 is available on all HostArmada hosting services, including Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Dedicated CPU Hosting plans. This means customers can take advantage of improved performance, stronger type safety, modern development features, and better application efficiency without changing hosting providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PHP 8 introduced several major enhancements, including JIT compilation, named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expressions, and the nullsafe operator. These improvements help developers write cleaner, more maintainable code while improving the speed and reliability of modern websites and web applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before upgrading, it is important to verify that your website, plugins, themes, and custom code are compatible with PHP 8. Testing in a staging environment and creating a backup beforehand can help ensure a smooth transition with minimal downtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 ez-toc-wrap-right counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #565656;color:#565656\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #565656;color:#565656\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/php-8-hosting-support\/#Its_Available_but_What_Exactly_Is_New\" >It\u2019s Available, but What Exactly Is New?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/php-8-hosting-support\/#What_Does_Having_PHP_8_Available_Mean_for_Your_Existing_Applications\" >What Does Having PHP 8 Available Mean for Your Existing Applications?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/php-8-hosting-support\/#New_Major_Features_Breakdown\" >New Major Features Breakdown<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/php-8-hosting-support\/#How_To_Upgrade_to_PHP_8\" >How To Upgrade to PHP 8?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostarmada.com\/blog\/php-8-hosting-support\/#FAQs\" >FAQs<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"h-it-s-available-but-what-exactly-is-new\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Its_Available_but_What_Exactly_Is_New\"><\/span>It\u2019s Available, but What Exactly Is New?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PHP version 8.0 is a significant update over the 7.4 branch of the PHP programming language. There are many new features and optimizations, including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, nullsafe operator, and JIT. It introduced improvements in the type system, error handling, and consistency. According to the PHP 8 roadmap, many long-expected, exciting features and enhancements have arrived with the release. <br><br>It adds much more clarity, transparency, and efficiency to the development workflow and gives developers a chance to build better, faster, and safer websites and applications. Many built-in functions are now pickier about the input they accept, and PHP 8 itself is more stringent about how that information is passed to functions. Issues that previously resulted in notices now result in warnings. And issues that resulted in warnings now result in errors. In other words, PHP 8 is not as lenient as previous versions. It will not try quite as hard to make code work no matter what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-what-does-having-php-8-available-mean-for-your-existing-applications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Does_Having_PHP_8_Available_Mean_for_Your_Existing_Applications\"><\/span>What Does Having PHP 8 Available Mean for Your Existing Applications?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Should you upgrade your online projects immediately? Probably not. First of all, you should confirm that everything is working with PHP version 7.4. Because of the many new features and improvements, there&#8217;s a higher chance you&#8217;ll need to make some changes in your PHP code to get it fully adapted to the new PHP 8. If you&#8217;ve kept your code up to date with the latest releases, though, the upgrade shouldn&#8217;t be too hard since most breaking changes that could occur were deprecated before in the 7.* versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-new-major-features-breakdown\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"New_Major_Features_Breakdown\"><\/span>New Major Features Breakdown<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some of the most important major features PHP 8 introduces:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Attributes<\/strong> &#8211; Also known as annotations in other languages, provide a mechanism to add metadata to your codebase.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/language.attributes.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Attributes<\/a>\u00a0can be used with classes, methods, functions, and properties. They\u2019re easier to work with than the\u00a0docblock approach\u00a0adopted by many PHP 7 projects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Constructor Property Promotion<\/strong> &#8211; PHP 8 adds support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/language.oop5.decon.php#language.oop5.decon.constructor.promotion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Constructor Property Promotion<\/a>, a shorthand syntax that lets you combine property definition, type-hinting, and population inline in the constructor\u2019s signature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>JIT<\/strong> &#8211; The JIT \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.php.net\/rfc\/jit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just in time<\/a> \u2014 compiler promises significant performance improvements. It is implemented and introduced as an almost independent part of OPcache. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Union Types<\/strong> &#8211;  PHP\u2019s type system continues to develop with PHP 8. It\u2019s now possible to hint at types as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/language.types.declarations.php#language.types.declarations.union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cunion\u201d of two or more<\/a>\u00a0types, where the type\u2019s value can derive from any of the types in the union.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Match Expression<\/strong> &#8211; The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/control-structures.match.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">match expression<\/a> is presented as a compact, safer alternative to the commonly known switch. It does not require the use of case and break statements, supports combined conditions, and returns a value instead of entering a new code block.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nullsafe Operator<\/strong> &#8211; PHP 8 now supports inline null checking with automatic short-circuiting with the use of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.php.net\/rfc\/nullsafe_operator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nullsafe Operator<\/a>. You can build up a chain of checks that will abort, returning null when evaluating any element fails.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stricter Type System<\/strong> &#8211; A fair number of changes in this area enhance the strictness and consistency with which type checking is enforced.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Named Arguments<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.php.net\/rfc\/named_params\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Named Arguments<\/a> allow you to pass in values to a function by specifying the value name so that you don&#8217;t have to consider their order. You can also skip optional parameters! <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-how-to-upgrade-to-php-8\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_To_Upgrade_to_PHP_8\"><\/span>How To Upgrade to PHP 8?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cPanel service offered with our Shared Hosting solutions has an easy-to-use feature known as &#8220;PHP selector&#8221;. That is what you can use to change your PHP version to PHP 8. Please bear in mind that this update to the arrangement will affect all the websites hosted on the cPanel. For the convenience of our clients, we have published a HostArmada <a href=\"https:\/\/hostarmada.com\/tutorials\/getting-started\/cpanel\/how-to-manage-the-php-version-of-your-web-hosting-account-in-cpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PHP selector tutorial<\/a> where you can find a step-by-step guide on changing your PHP version, as well as additional information on how to use it effectively and manage your PHP extensions. <br><br>If you are a client of our Cloud SSD VPS or Dedicated CPU solutions, PHP 8 is available on demand. The only thing you will need to do is to <a href=\"https:\/\/my.hostarmada.com\/submitticket.php\">submit a ticket<\/a> via your <a href=\"https:\/\/my.hostarmada.com\/clientarea.php\">Client Area<\/a> with HostArmada and request the installation and configuration of PHP 8. <br><br>If you still have questions or encounter issues with this process, despite our guide, there is nothing to worry about because our expert support team is here to help at any time, as we are available 24\/7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-faqs\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"FAQs\"><\/span>FAQs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1780751722751\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>Is PHP 8 available on all HostArmada hosting plans?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Yes, PHP 8 is available on HostArmada Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Dedicated CPU Hosting solutions.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1780751773062\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>Should I upgrade from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">If your website and applications are compatible, upgrading to PHP 8 can improve performance, security, and development efficiency.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1780751773544\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>What are the biggest features introduced in PHP 8?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Some of the most notable additions include JIT compilation, named arguments, union types, attributes, match expressions, and the nullsafe operator.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1780751774011\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>How can I switch my website to PHP 8?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Shared Hosting users can change their PHP version through cPanel&#8217;s PHP Selector, while VPS and Dedicated Hosting customers can request assistance from HostArmada&#8217;s support team.<\/p> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHP 8 is available on all HostArmada hosting services, including Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Dedicated CPU Hosting plans. 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