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PHP (HyperText Preprocessor) is the most popular web programming language. It was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, have gained popularity after its parser have been rewritten in 1998. Since then large community of users have been developing and testing PHP. It is a lot simpler and easy to create a dynamic website in PHP than with its competitors Perl, Ruby on Rails, ASP (Active Server Pages), and probably that is why it is more popular. PHP as a programming language offers many features to developers, and since PHP 5 a greater support for object-oriented programming.

What is important for PHP host?

The important thing about a web hosting company is to always have the latest PHP version. But PHP alone with not be much of use to. MySQL have to be available if you want to install a web application like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla. Some hosts even allow custom PHP.ini Settings (some scripts require some PHP settings to be turned on/off or configured), .htaccess support for pretty urls (SEO?), and some like Hostgator even allow custom module installation (you will need to ask the support staff). So a good PHP hosting provider is the one who offers PHP, MySQL and a cPanel (for web hosting management) and a linux hosting environment. Nowadays many hosts offer this kind of setup. Here are some popular ones: HostGator, Bluehost, HostMonster, Webhostingpad, Ixwebhosting, Justhost and Lunarpages.

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