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VPS (Virtual Private Server) Hosting<\/em><\/a>, as we have covered in our previous articles, is a powerful and dynamic hosting infrastructure combining the qualities of both Shared and Dedicated Hosting. It allows you to manage your server seamlessly with complete root access. Since VPS is a self-managed server<\/em><\/a>, it is important that you know how to enable various features on your VPS package. In this tutorial, we will cover, how to change the PHP version in cPanel for your VPS package, however, before we get to the tutorial let us first have a look at what PHP is.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor (earlier called, Personal Home Page<\/strong>). It is an open-source, server-side scripting language that enables developers to develop web applications and can be embedded directly into an HTML code. Moreover, PHP also helps create dynamic web pages for web apps, e-commerce based apps, as well as, database applications. Along with this, it is platform independent and connects with several databases like MySQL<\/em><\/a>, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc. Now, that we\u2019ve covered the basics of PHP let us move on to understanding how to change the PHP version in cPanel. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n