Powered by Network Solutions: Scripting - How to update your PHP version

PHP is one of the most popular scripting languages available today. About 80% of all websites use PHP, which plays a vital role in WordPress ecosystems. Due to its popularity, this language is continuously developed and improved.

Reasons why you should keep your PHP version up-to-date

• The most important reason is security. It ensures that your system is patched regularly and protects you from vulnerabilities such as DoS, code execution, overflow, memory corruption, and information disclosure.
• Updates provide significant performance improvements over previous iterations.
• Updates introduce new features and capabilities.
• Support is another reason to update your PHP version. In most cases, if you need help with a theme, plugin, or any app that runs on PHP, their developers would be unable to extend their support to you if your system runs on an older version.

1. Log in to your Account Manager via https://www.networksolutions.com/my-account/login.
2. Click Websites & Hosting from the left navigation menu.
   
   
    
3. Navigate to the hosting package that you want to update the PHP version, then click Manage to continue.
   
   
    
4. On the left sidebar, click on Scripting Config.
   
   
    
5. Click the Manage PHP Scripting link in the PHP Scripting tab.
   
   
    
6. Under ACTIONS, click on Change PHP Version.
   
   
    
7. Select the domain you need to update the PHP version (if you have multiple domains in your hosting package) and your preferred PHP version from their respective drop-down menus.
   
   
    
8. Click the Set Version button.