For security and stability reasons, we don’t usually run the latest versions of important software releases on our hosting platform. We do however keep a close eye on when releases are made and we have just updated the PHP version on our Linux platform to version 5.35 (this is just one version behind the latest release).

In order to use this version of PHP on your site, simply head for this icon in your Control Panel:

You can use this to toggle between PHP versions 5.35 or 4.4 at any time.

Alternatively, add the following line into an .htaccess file in a directory within your public_html directory, and that’ll turn on PHP 5.3.5 for just that directory (and the directories below it):

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 53

If you encounter any problems, just raise a ticket and we will be happy to help.