{"id":9476,"date":"2016-12-07T06:53:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T12:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siteground.com\/blog\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2023-09-05T07:12:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T07:12:02","slug":"php-7-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siteground.com\/blog\/php-7-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP 7.0 is Now Default on SiteGround Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9479\" src=\"https:\/\/newblog.siteground.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Blog-PHP7-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last December we were among the first hosting companies to make <a href=\"https:\/\/newblog.siteground.com\/en\/php7-available-on-all-siteground-servers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHP 7.0 available<\/a> on our entire infrastructure. Thanks to our system which allows multiple PHPs to be used on one server, anyone could have switched to PHP 7.0 since its zero-day release, while we still kept an older and well-tested PHP version as the global default setting. Now, an year later we believe it&#8217;s time for the next step &#8211; setting PHP 7.0 as default for all new accounts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Why make PHP 7.0 default?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reason number one is its amazing performance gains. Regardless of our continuous efforts to popularize the availability of PHP 7 and its benefits, we are well aware that a big percentage of the users will never change their default settings. An year after the release of PHP 7.0 and 13 sub-versions later we believe that it is tested well-enough to be safely applied as default on our servers. That is why we are now making it a default setting in order to increase the level of its adoption among our users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>New accounts are now set up with PHP 7.0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since yesterday all new shared, cloud and dedicated accounts are setup with PHP 7.0 as their default PHP version. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Existing accounts are recommended to do the switch manually <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All existing accounts will remain unaffected though, as changing the PHP version for a production site should be done with caution. 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