Somewhere to put the app you're building

Almost anything you care to name. Content platforms are covered: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Ghost, Concrete CMS. So are shops, meaning WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop and OpenCart. PHP frameworks like Laravel and Symfony run happily, as do community tools such as phpBB, MyBB and MediaWiki, learning platforms of the Moodle variety, and any custom PHP project you have written yourself. Softaculous alone carries more than 240 recognised scripts across those groups. Anything it leaves out, you install by hand over SSH or SFTP. Underneath sits a standard, properly equipped PHP and MySQL stack, versions selectable, the usual extensions present, so most software written for shared hosting behaves itself. Do read an app's own requirements before installing: which PHP release it wants, which extensions it expects. Both are yours to set from the panel. Unsure about one particular app? Ask our team and they'll tell you straight whether it fits.

Not for the popular platforms, no. Softaculous walks you through choosing the app, deciding which domain and folder it belongs in, and setting an admin username and password. The installer then sorts the database, writes the configuration file and creates your login without you touching a thing. That is the usual route people take to get WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla or Magento running on this platform, and plenty of those installs will keep themselves updated afterwards. Prefer to stay hands-on? Push your own code, drop in a framework project, or install a script Softaculous has never heard of. SFTP, SSH, Git and phpMyAdmin all come with the account, so doing it by hand is supported just as well. If an install goes sideways either way, support answers at any hour.

Yes, provided your plan allows more than one website. Several apps can sit under a single account at the same time. Picture a WordPress blog, a Laravel dashboard and a Joomla site side by side, each with its own domain, its own database and its own configuration, kept properly separate from the others. PHP versions are chosen per site, so one app can run the newest release while another stays back on whatever version its plugins were built against, and neither trips the other up. Each application also gets a document root of its own, which keeps the files tidy and isolated even though everything lives on the same fast NVMe server. That arrangement suits anyone consolidating a handful of projects, keeping a staging copy alongside the live one, or looking after a small stable of sites. Running a bigger pile of client sites? Look at the website allowance on each plan and pick one with headroom.

Several current PHP 8.x releases are on offer, picked per site, and two apps in the same account can happily sit on different ones, so nobody is forced to upgrade the lot at once. Extensions switch on and off as your software demands them: GD and Imagick for image work, mbstring and intl for text handling, cURL, PDO and the MySQL drivers, plus OPcache, zip, bcmath and the rest. All of that lives in the control panel. Matching whatever Magento, Laravel or some older app insists on takes no support ticket at all. The same panel exposes the php.ini settings busy applications care about, memory_limit and max_execution_time among them, along with upload size caps, so a store pulling in large product feeds or a CMS swallowing big media files has the room to do it. Swap a version or an extension and the change bites almost straight away, which puts the whole tuning job at a couple of minutes.

Yes, free of charge, whichever platform you are on. Sign up first, then raise a support ticket carrying your current host's details, and the whole move lands with our team: files, database, and the configuration wiring the two together. We stand the app up on our servers before anything changes for your visitors, then check it loads and behaves the way it should, so problems surface ahead of launch instead of an hour after it. Once the app passes that check, we help you repoint the domain. Most transfers finish in roughly a day, which keeps downtime down to very little. A WordPress site, a WooCommerce or Magento store, a Laravel build, a custom PHP application: same treatment for all of them. Got something odd in the mix, such as a particular cron job, one specific extension, or a third-party service wired in? Mention it in the ticket and we will carry it across and keep it running.

Every major platform has a page of its own, with advice pitched at how that particular software behaves: the PHP version and extensions it prefers, the resources a busy install tends to want, the tools you will reach for most days. Beneath all that, the plans share one base. Fast NVMe storage, LiteSpeed-class caching, free SSL renewing on its own, daily backups taken for you, and support from actual people at any hour, on every tier without exception. What you are picking, then, is how much resource and how many sites you need, not a different product wearing a different name, and moving up later does not mean building the setup again. Easiest route: find the card for your app further up this page, read the guidance written for it, and take the tier that suits your traffic and catalog. Running a mix of apps side by side? Any multi-site plan will hold the lot, and our team will gladly help you settle on one.