A home for whatever app you're building

Practically anything. That covers content platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Ghost and Concrete CMS; online stores like WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop and OpenCart; PHP frameworks including Laravel and Symfony; community tools such as phpBB, MyBB and MediaWiki; learning platforms like Moodle; and any custom PHP project you build from scratch. Softaculous by itself handles more than 240 well-known scripts spanning those categories, and whatever it doesn't include you can still set up manually through SSH or SFTP. The environment underneath is a standard, fully equipped PHP and MySQL stack with a choice of versions and the usual extensions, so most software built for shared hosting runs without a hitch. Before installing, it's worth checking an app's own requirements — which PHP version and extensions it wants — all of which you control yourself from the panel. Not sure about a particular app? Our team can tell you whether it's a good match.

Not if you're using one of the popular platforms. Softaculous walks you through picking the app, choosing which domain and folder it belongs in, and setting an admin username and password — then the installer handles the database, the configuration file and your login automatically, with nothing to touch by hand. That's the standard route most people take to get WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla or Magento running here, and a lot of those installs can update themselves afterward too. If you'd rather stay hands-on — pushing your own code, a framework project, or a script Softaculous doesn't carry — SFTP, SSH, Git and phpMyAdmin are all included, so building it manually is just as well supported. Either way, our support team is available at any hour if an install hits a snag.

Yes, as long as your plan supports multiple websites. You can run several different apps at once under a single account — say, a WordPress blog, a Laravel dashboard and a Joomla site — each with its own domain, its own database and its own configuration, kept fully separate from one another. Since PHP versions are chosen per site, one app can run on the newest release while another stays on whatever version its plugins are built for, without either interfering with the other. Every application also gets its own document root, so the files stay organized and isolated even though they're all sitting on the same fast NVMe server. That setup works well if you're bringing a handful of projects together, running a staging copy next to a live one, or maintaining a small collection of sites. Managing a larger number of client sites? Check the website allowance on each plan and choose one with enough room.

You can choose from several current PHP 8.x releases on a per-site basis, and even run different apps on different versions within the same account, so you're never pushed to upgrade everything together. Beyond the version itself, you switch extensions on and off as your software needs them — GD and Imagick for image work, mbstring and intl for text handling, cURL, PDO and the MySQL drivers, plus OPcache, zip, bcmath and others — all from the control panel. That makes it simple to match whatever Magento, Laravel or an older app requires without filing a support ticket. The same panel also gives you the php.ini settings busy apps care about, like memory_limit, max_execution_time and upload size caps, so a store importing large product feeds or a CMS accepting big media files has the room it needs. Changing a version or an extension applies almost immediately, so tuning the setup for a new app takes only a couple of minutes.

Yes, and there's no charge for it regardless of the platform. Once you've signed up, open a support ticket with your current host's details and our team handles the entire move — the files, the database and the configuration linking them together. We set the app up on our servers first and confirm it loads and behaves correctly before anything changes for your visitors, so any issues get caught ahead of launch instead of afterward. When everything checks out, we help you repoint your domain, and since most transfers wrap up in roughly a day, your downtime stays minimal. This applies just as well to a WordPress site, a WooCommerce or Magento store, a Laravel build or a custom PHP application. If your setup includes anything unusual — a particular cron job, a specific extension, a connected third-party service — flag it in the ticket and we'll make sure it transfers over and keeps running.

Each major platform gets its own page with advice suited to how that software actually behaves — the PHP version and extensions it favors, the resources a busy install typically needs, and the tools you'll use most. Underneath all of that, though, every plan shares the same base: fast NVMe storage, LiteSpeed-class caching, complimentary SSL that renews on its own, automatic daily backups and support from real people around the clock, on every tier. So what you're really choosing is how much resource and how many sites you need, not a different product altogether, and you can upgrade later without starting the setup over. The simplest approach is to follow the card for your app further up this page, read the guidance written for it, and pick the tier that fits your traffic and catalog. Running a mix of apps? Any multi-site plan can host them all together, and our team is happy to help you land on the right one.