Speed up website with PHP 7 on Heart

Using  Heart shared hosting wordpress sites can be pretty slow. The default PHP version seems to be 5.3 though you  can bump this up  to 5.5 in the Hosting Control panel. But i have been adding php versiosn with htaccess files for some time: SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 56 but today i tried 2 sites with SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 70 and they are both running  much faster. There is a worry that certain plugins and scripting  may not work with v7. You  just have to test it and find out – its ok to go back to an earlier version.

Speed up website with PHP 7 on Heart

Mar 2, 2017

Using  Heart shared hosting wordpress sites can be pretty slow. The default PHP version seems to be 5.3 though you  can bump this up  to 5.5 in the Hosting Control panel.
But i have been adding php versiosn with htaccess files for some time:

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 56

but today i tried 2 sites with

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 70

and they are both running  much faster.

There is a worry that certain plugins and scripting  may not work with v7. You  just have to test it and find out – its ok to go back to an earlier version.