Service Updates

Upcoming PHP changes

Reclaim Hosting

01 Dec 2025 — 1 min read

Here is a quick reminder of upcoming changes, which will affect Shared Hosting customers, as well as sites hosted on Domain of One's Own and Managed cPanel servers.

Planned upgrades

Raising Default Version from PHP 8.1 to PHP 8.2: On December 1, 2025 we will be changing the default PHP version on all our cPanel servers, from PHP 8.1 to PHP 8.2. Only the default command-line PHP and sites set to “inherit” the PHP version will be impacted by this change; all other sites with a specified PHP version will remain using that PHP version.
Removal of PHP 7.3 & 7.4: We are also on track to fully remove PHP 7.3 from our cPanel servers by January 5th, and PHP 7.4 by Mid Year 2026. If you have a website on PHP 7.3 or 7.4 at the time of depreciation, your website will automatically move to the lowest version available.

If you are unsure which version of PHP your site is using, or whether your site is set to "inherit" the default version, you can always check and/or the version using the MultiPHP Manager tool in cPanel. Note that it is only possible to set PHP versions for domains or subdomains, not for subdirectories. If a site is installed on a subdirectory (eg, defaultsite.com/example), it will use the PHP version set for its parent domain (in this case, defaultsite.com).

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