{"id":17452,"date":"2026-10-22T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/?p=17452"},"modified":"2026-10-22T03:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:35:04","slug":"why-websites-run-on-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/why-websites-run-on-php\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Websites Run on PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why is the world&#8217;s most websites still running on PHP?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class='code-block code-block-6' style='margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;'>\n<!-- OnlHeaderResponsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5339207343588395\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9406207027\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between the servere vulnerabilities and that the language being written in a way that is very prone to go wrong, <strong>why is everyone still running on PHP<\/strong>? I found that PHP still powers about 69.3% of websites whose server-side language W3Techs can identify; WordPress alone runs on 39.6% of all websites in its survey. That\u2019s a large installed base of sites, hosting setups, plugins, themes, and developers. <strong>I understand that PHP has historical design quirks, and old or inconsistent code can be error-prone<\/strong>. Modern PHP has added type declarations and other features that help teams write more disciplined code, but that doesn\u2019t automatically clean up legacy applications or force every website project to use stricter practices. <strong>So why the global websites still depend on PHP.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is the world&#8217;s most websites still running on PHP? Between the servere vulnerabilities and that the language being written in a way that is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1157,651,160,869,219,205,147,598,674,1214,503,418,157],"class_list":["post-17452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","tag-adminbolt","tag-blog-hosting","tag-blogging","tag-cms","tag-cpanel","tag-directadmin","tag-hosting","tag-linux","tag-php","tag-php-hosting","tag-plesk","tag-website-hosting","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17453,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions\/17453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}