PHP Web Hosting
Weycrest offer Cheap PHP Web Hosting. PHP is a highly popular scripting language and has been around since 1984 It’s behind many of the world’s dynamic websites, but originated as a simple way to maintain “Personal Home Pages.”

It is completely free and is known as ‘open source’ meaning the source code is available for download, at no cost to you the user.

It is very widely used in conjunction with the popular and efficient MySQL database engine, but can be used easily with others such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQLite.

It is generally easier to code in PHP compared to ASP.NET, since it has a lot more functions built in than its rival.

However, ulike ASP.NET PHP doesn’t have built in AJAX functions.

There are plenty of free applications written in PHP that are available and ready to use immediately, such as Content Management Systems (CMS) ecommerce,billing and blog software. There is a massive community behind the development of PHP and plenty of forums and blogs where you can find out more information.

More information on PHP can be found at:

http://www.php.net

Ans. On some of our servers yes, though this can cause compatability problems with some our Application Vault software (OScommerce is an example) so we are also running PHP4 alongside.

If you specify PHP version at time of ordering we can ensure hosting account is setup on the most appropriate server.

Ans. On our Plesk and cPanel servers the current version of Perl is perl-5.8.5

There are two most probable causes.

1. if you upload your script using FTP, you must use ASCII as opposed to binary mode.

2. Windows as a hangover from its DOS days ends text lines with a carriage returns / newline pair where as Linux (based on Unix) ends text with just a newline character.

Compatability problems usually arise then when you edit your Perl/CGI script in notepad and upload to our Unix based servers.

We would therefore recommend a replacement for Notepad called TextPad. This will convert your (DOS formatted script) to one correctly formatted to Unix.

Ans: The path to perl on all our hosting servers is:

/usr/bin/perl

Therefore all your perl/cgi scripts must start:

#! /usr/bin/perl