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PHP web hosting is a popular choice nowadays. PHP originally derived from Personal Home Page Tools, now stands for Hypertext Preprocessor that is defined as a recursive acronym by the PHP official web site. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. As it is freely available and offered under an open source licence and used primarily on Linux web servers it is easy to understand why PHP web hosting is continuing to gain popularity.

PHP web hosting is needed to run PHP that is a script language and interpreter and the most common alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology. As with ASP, the PHP script is embedded within a web page along with its HTML. Before the page is sent to a user that has requested it, the web server calls PHP to interpret and perform the operations called for in the PHP script. To recognize a PHP web hosting page, look for its file name suffix that in general is .php (sometimes .php3 or .phtml).

As for other server-side scripting languages PHP is an excellent way to create dynamic web sites since content will vary based on the results of interpreting the script. PHP web hosting is usually coupled together with MySQL Databases in order to maximize the benefits of dynamically generated html pages.

PHP language has been designed expressly for the Web and that's why PHP web hosting is the first web hosting choice and offered by the most reliable web hosting providers. PHP technology offers quick development time and exceptionally short learning curve together with a very high performance and native support to all major platforms and most used databases.