Now that you are aware of the advantages and disadvantages that come with a PHP hosting company, you are ready to make a well educated decision for your website. We have laid out the basics of what PHP based servers can and cannot do, which should make this decision much easier for you.


If you plan to use .ASP, Visual Basic, or other Windows based applications, PHP hosting is not an option for you. The only server that will allow you to run these applications is a server that runs on a Windows platform. This can be severely limiting, but there are other options available to you if you plan to use Unix based applications.


PHP based servers will allow you to run Unix and PHP applications, which can give your site a lot of functionality and make your job as a webmaster easier. This may be worth converting your site if you are running on a Windows based server. If you are looking into running several CGI, Perl or PHP scripts, a PHP host can provide you with the platform to run these applications.