Whatever you are putting online, we stock the shelf for it

Very nearly all of them. Content platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Ghost and Concrete CMS; shops like WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop and OpenCart; PHP frameworks including Laravel and Symfony; community software such as phpBB, MyBB and MediaWiki; learning platforms like Moodle; and whatever you wrote yourself. Softaculous alone carries over 240 well-known scripts across those categories, and anything it does not list can still be installed by hand over SSH or SFTP. Underneath sits an ordinary, fully equipped PHP and MySQL stack with a choice of releases and the usual extensions, which is why most software written for shared hosting simply works. Before installing, glance at the application's own requirements — the PHP version and the extensions it expects — since both are yours to set from the panel. Unsure about one particular app? Describe it to us and we will tell you plainly whether it fits.

Not for the popular platforms. Softaculous walks you through it: choose the application, say which domain and folder it belongs in, set an admin username and password, and the installer creates the database, writes the configuration file and hands you a working login. That is how most WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla and Magento installs start here, and a good number of them will keep themselves updated afterwards. If you would rather keep your hands on the controls — pushing your own code, deploying a framework project, or installing something Softaculous does not carry — SFTP, SSH, Git and phpMyAdmin are all included, so building it manually is equally well supported. Whichever route you take, support is awake at any hour if an install goes sideways.

Yes, provided your plan allows more than one website. Several different applications can share an account — a WordPress blog, a Laravel dashboard and a Joomla site, say — each with its own domain, its own database and its own configuration, kept properly apart. Because the PHP release is chosen per site, one application can sit on the newest build while another stays on whatever version its plugins were written for, with neither affecting the other. Every application also gets its own document root, so the files stay tidy and separate even though they share one fast NVMe server. That arrangement works well for pulling a handful of projects together, keeping a staging copy beside the live site, or looking after a small set of sites for other people. Managing a larger roster? Check the website allowance on each plan and take one with enough room.

Several current PHP 8.x releases, chosen per site, so different applications on the same account can sit on different versions and nobody is forced to upgrade everything on the same day. Beyond the release itself, extensions go on and off as your software requires — GD and Imagick for images, 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 matching whatever Magento, Laravel or an older application demands a two-minute job rather than a support ticket. The same panel carries the php.ini values busy software cares about: memory_limit, max_execution_time and the upload caps, so a store importing a large product feed or a CMS accepting big media files has the room it needs. Changes to a release or an extension take effect almost immediately, so tuning for a new application barely interrupts your afternoon.

Yes, free of charge, whatever the platform. Once you have ordered, raise a ticket with your current host's details and our team handles the whole move — the files, the database and the configuration that ties them together. We set the application up on our servers and confirm it loads and behaves properly before anything changes for your visitors, so problems surface before launch rather than after. When it all checks out, we help you repoint the domain, and since most transfers finish inside a day, the interruption stays small. This holds equally for a WordPress site, a WooCommerce or Magento store, a Laravel build or a custom PHP application. If your setup has anything unusual about it — a particular cron job, a specific extension, a third-party service wired in — mention it in the ticket and we will make sure it comes across and keeps working.

Each major platform has its own page, written around how that software actually behaves — the PHP release and extensions it prefers, the resources a busy install tends to want, and the tools you will reach for most. Underneath all of them, though, the plans share one foundation: fast NVMe storage, LiteSpeed-class caching, free SSL that reissues itself, a daily backup and people on support around the clock, on every tier. So the decision in front of you is how much resource and how many sites, not which product — and upgrading later does not mean setting anything up again. The simplest approach is to follow the card for your application further up this page, read the notes written for it, and take the tier that matches your traffic and catalog. Running a mixture? Any multi-site plan will carry them together, and we are happy to help you land on the right one.