Our EOL web hosting service offers customers with applications running old and unsupported versions of PHP (e.g 4.4.9, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4) a secure home while they work to upgrade to recommended and newer PHP versions.

To host these old PHP versions though, we use (among other tools):

• cPanel & WHM
• HardenedPHP
• CloudLinux™ Hardened OS
• AI-driven Security Suite
• PHP Selector

HardenedPHP supports older versions of PHP without compromising security.

CloudLinux OS is a state-of-the-art operating system built with shared hosting in mind.

PHP Selector sits on top of CageFS and allows each user to select a PHP version and module based on their needs.

An AI security suite that utilizes a multi-layer approach to provide total protection against any type of malicious attack.

The issue is that we have learned from the cPanel team that cPanel & WHM v110 will be the last version that supports CloudLinux™ 7.

cPanel will stop supporting v110 on June 30, 2024

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What this means for you, our customer with applications running upstream non-supported PHP version is that you need to do everything you can, to update the application before March 30, 2024.

Once you have done so, please visit our Migration Team so we can move your account to a system that can properly host your account.

But there is more.

PHP 4.4 and PHP 5.1 End-Of-Life

We've supported PHP 4.4 and PHP 5.1 since we started offering this service.

But if you step back a bit and take a look at this, the PHP dev team stopped supporting PHP 5.1 almost 17 years ago.

And PHP 4.1 has more than 21 years.

The technology behind these PHP versions is outdated and only a small fraction of websites still use them.

That is no surprise since using older versions definitely exposes you to security vulnerabilities and bugs, most of which have been fixed in recent versions of PHP.

Security vulnerability patching for PHP 5.1 will stop on Apr 1, 2024.

For PHP 4.4, the security vulnerability patching will stop on Jul 1, 2023.

When this happens, we will remove these from any machine that has the version installed.

Why should we do that?

Because the risk of running these PHP versions with unpatched security bugs will be too much.

We sincerely urge you to either upgrade the application using PHP 4.4 and PHP 5.1 to at least PHP 5.6.

We also recommend that you upgrade the application to a newly supported PHP version before March 1st, 2024 (that being the day we will pull the plug on the servers hosting such applications).

If you need help, suggestions, or advice on how best to get this done, please contact our technical support team.

Thank you for being part of our experience.

As a website owner, you want to ensure not only top performance for your visitors but also maximum uptime.

Today, we are introducing 360 Monitoring, a website monitoring service you can use to keep a steady eye on your web properties.

As a website monitoring tool, 360 Monitoring provides configurable dashboards, personalized alerts, and seamless integration with top database and server technologies. 

It is integrated with your cPanel®, Plesk®, and customer dashboard.

With 360 Monitoring, you get:

• site monitoring which measures uptime performance by monitoring HTTPS(S), TCP (port), and ICMP (ping) in standard intervals.
• full site evaluation which checks your entire website, including private portals and online stores, for quality, bugs, and errors.
• downtime monitoring
• SSL validity & expiration checks
• etc

360 Monitoring starts with a Lite Plan which can be used to monitor one website for free.

The Lite plan gives you:

• Email Alerts
• 24-Hour Data Retention
• Single-Website Monitoring
• 10-Minute Interval Scans

The Lite package does NOT include access to:

• alerts via Full Site Check
• multi-channel alerts through Slack, Telegram, and More
• 30-Day Data Retention

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You can keep a close eye on your web endpoints and avoid outages while ensuring user satisfaction by taking advantage of our 360 Website Monitoring 50% Off introductory pricing.

This is an opportunity you can't afford to miss.

Visit and enroll today to receive this discount of 50% off 360 Monitoring Personal and Pro. 

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For customers wishing to try out NordVPN and experience top-tier cybersecurity, you can take advantage of our introductory promotional pricing that gives you a 65% discount to start with NordVPN. 

You can enroll today by visiting  https://dashboard.webhostingmagic.com/announcements/55/Get-NordVPN-with-this-Special-Offer-and-Promotion.html and use the coupon below:

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 In a highly competitive environment, a slow WordPress can be a barrier to your customer acquisition.

Last time, we drew your attention to AccelerateWPthat allows website owners to improve the performance of websites with faster performance, smarter operations, better security, and improved profitability.

Testings have been completed.

AccelerateWP now is 100% production-ready.

The interface has been greatly improved for website admins and you can add it to your WordPress hosting package as an add-on.

To learn how you can enhance the performance of your WordPress and AccelerateWP pricing tiers, please visit https://dashboard.webhostingmagic.com/announcements/54/Deciding-Between-AccelerateWP-Premium-and-AccelerateWP-For-WordPress-Optimization.html

Hello everyone,

We have some exciting news to share - cPanel PHP 8.1 is now available for production! 

This upgrade from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.1 brings many new features, better security and huge performance improvement.

For full details on all the new features and improvements in PHP 8.1, please see the release notes at https://www.php.net/releases/8.1/en.php.

If you're already running cPanel PHP 7.4, upgrading to PHP 8.1 is easy. 

Simply log into your cPanel account, scroll down to Software, select the "MultiPHP Manager" icon, and then select PHP 8.1 from the menu. 

Your site will be automatically updated to use the new version of PHP.

For a detailed walk-through on how you can upgrade to PHP 8.1 (or stick with PHP 7.4 should you need it but without the risk and without needing to rewrite your code), please visit https://dashboard.webhostingmagic.com/announcements/51/Whats-Happening-Next-with-PHP-7.4-and-Your-cPanel-Hosting-Account.html

A website that helps you achieve business goals, is the kind of website that every website owner wants to have.

For that to happen, it has to be a highly-optimized website.

This is especially true for WordPress websites.

You need a WordPress website that is known for its speed, performance, and security. 

These will of course lead to better rankings and visibility within organic search results.

It is for this reason that we have enabled a 1-click WordPress CMS Site Optimization capability for all customers hosting WordPress on our web hosting platform.

It is free.

It is automatic.

It is part of your cPanel server and understands your website better.

There is no need to go a-fiddling with 3rd-party optimization plugins that often create more problems than they solve.

There is no learning curve.

It is simply the best non-code method to make your WordPress site optimization effort faster and smarter.

Customers have seen their WordPress website performance boosted by over 300%.

Visit our blog to see how to get this enabled for your Web Hosting Magic WordPress hosting account.

If you have received within the past 48 hrs a notification such as this:

Updates were not installed for the following items: Website "/home/$username/public_html" (https://$domain.com): Failed to reset cache for the instance #1: WordPress Toolkit was not able to finish running an operation on this site in 60 seconds, so the operation was terminated. This could mean that your WordPress installation might be infected with malware. Check the wp-config.php file of the installation for potential malware code or run an anti-virus scan. If you cannot find any traces of malware, try running the operation again later.

it is likely because of an existing issue with WordPress Toolkit.

By default, the cPanel WordPress Toolkit plugin automatically checks your WordPress website daily for malware infection.

It turned out that as presently coded, WordPress Toolkit creates a false match if it could not verify WordPress file checksums via api.wordpress.org or if api.wordpress.org is unavailable or inaccessible.

For now, the workaround is as follows:

Log in to your cPanel.

Visit WordPress Toolkit.

You will see something like this:

Click on Check WordPress Integrity

Click the "Verify Checksum"

Once the checksum check is completed, you will see this:

Close the pop-up.

Now click on "Refresh".

You will notice that the issue has gone away.

If you are unable to do this by yourself, please contact our technical support team at https://dashboard.webhostingmagic.com/submitticket.php

It is also worth noting that you can install WordPress using other methods including

• Softaculous WordPress Manager
• WP-CLI
• or manual WordPress installation

If you wish to use either of these instead of WordPress Toolkit and are not sure where to start, please do visit and create a technical support request and create request.

The cPanel WordPress Toolkit development team is aware of this problem and working on a permanent fix.

We are also following the issue.

Customers will receive an email notification when a solution is published in the product

To continue providing this all-around 24 hrs technical support, we have added a Phoenix-based ISO 9001 & ISO 27001-certified, GDPR-compliant first responder team as additional engineers.

As an existing or new customer, just visit https://dashboard.webhostingmagic.com/submitticket.php and select the Technical Assistant & Analysis team whenever you want something to get done.

As long as the issue is hosting account related (and not the management of website content), our team will work to help you get it done.

This expanded service starts on August 1st, 2022 and we are looking forward to helping you get things done.

Thanks for choosing Web Hosting Magic, and for helping us get to this point.

Web Hosting Magic has been offering HardenedPHP hosting packages that support PHP 4.4 for many years.

We have been doing that even after upstream stopped supporting it 13 years ago.

We felt that it is our obligation to assist customers still using old PHP versions to keep their website/application online while working towards an upgrade. 

But the technology behind PHP 4.4 is now so outdated that it poses a significant risk not only to the customers using it but also to the systems that support it.

Thus, Web Hosting Magic will officially end support for PHP 4.4 on Jan 1, 2023.

This means that security vulnerabilities in PHP 4.4 will no longer be patched and the verison removed from our systems.

If you are still running an application that requires PHP 4.4, we highly recommend that you start looking around for a way to upgrade the app to work with either:

• PHP 5.3
• PHP 5.4
• PHP 5.5
• PHP 5.6
• PHP 7.0
• PHP 7.1
• PHP 7.3

All the above PHP versions can ONLY be hosted in our Iowa data center.

• PHP 7.4
• PHP 8.0
• PHP 8.1

Want to host a PHP application (even one running PHP5.6) securely?

You can ... with the HardenedPHP packages at https://dashboard.webhostingmagic.com/store/secure-php-hosting

We recently announced the availability of AccelerateWP, a tool you can use from your cPanel to accelerate and optimize your WordPress for speed.

Today, we are also announcing the availability of cPanel SEO.

As a product, cPanel SEO is designed to help our customers:

• create more successful websites
• find relevant keywords
• optimize existing content
• write great blog posts without hiring an SEO expert or overextending your budget
• rank better in search engines such as Google, Microsoft, etc

To learn more about cPanel SEO visit https://dashboard.webhostingmagic.com/store/search-engine-optimization