This notice applies to all customers with a
Managed SSD VPS plan through us. All customers using Shared and Ecommerce hosting prior to Dec 31, 2018 have already been upgraded to PHP 7.2 or higher. If you have signed up for hosting with us
after January 1, 2019, please
open a support ticket or
open a live chat to check with us and make sure your cPanel account is using a supported PHP version.
Both PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 reached
End of Life at the beginning of the year, and are no longer receiving any security patches from PHP. With
cPanel & WHM Version 80 moving to the current tier, we are also encouraging users to upgrade to supported PHP versions in EasyApache 4. To help with that, we are removing PHP 5.6 and 7.0 from our default EasyApache profiles. This change
only impacts servers running our default EasyApache profiles currently, but we are planning on removing PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0 from our EasyApache 4 repositories entirely by Version 88 (anticipated in the second quarter of 2020).
If your server is currently using PHP versions 5.6 or 7.0, you will
not be affected unless or until the EasyApache 4 profile on your server is updated or reinstalled.
What Does This Mean to You?
As both of these versions have been End of Life since the beginning of 2019, these versions are no longer supported or receiving updates from the providers of PHP. If you or your customers are currently running websites using either PHP 5.6 or 7.0, this is a good opportunity to encourage an upgrade to PHP 7.2 or PHP 7.3. Any sites continuing to use these outdated PHP versions are at risk for potential security or compromise issues.
How to Prepare
Ensuring that you or your customers have updated their software to use PHP 7.2 (or higher) is a great way to start. Popular CMSs such as
WordPress,
Joomla, and
Drupal provide instructions on how to update their versions to those that support PHP 7.2 (WordPress version 5+, Joomla version 3.9, and Drupal version 8.7.1).
How to Check Which Sites are Using PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 if you have an SSD VPS
Logging into WHM
Once logged into WHM, go to Software > MultiPHP Manager and scroll through the list of domains to see which version each cPanel account is using
Via the Command Line
Your command will look like this
whmapi1 php_get_vhost_versions | grep -A1 version:
How to Check Which Sites are Using PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 if you have a Shared or Ecommerce Hosting Plan
Login to cPanel to Check
Once logged in, go to the Software section and click 'MultiPHP Manager'. This page will list all domains associated with your cPanel account and which version of PHP they are using.
