PHP 7 support and portable public IP addresses now available on Layershift Jelastic PaaS
We’ve just added 2 more great features to our Jelastic PaaS to help you to deploy and run your sites with maximum performance and efficiency.
PHP 7: Max performance, minimum cost
Hot on the heels of introducing PHP 7 to our Cloud VPS hosting plans, we’re happy to follow it up by announcing the immediate availability of PHP 7 on the Layershift Jelastic PaaS as well.
Until now, our Jelastic PaaS was a great place to check your code for PHP 7 compatibility, via the Docker(R) based container images – available since the PHP 7 project launched its release candidates, but from today PHP 7 has graduated to a first class citizen of our Jelastic PaaS.
Why is PHP 7 so exciting? Besides an assortment of new language features to take your productivity to the next level, PHP 7 offers substantial performance increases whilst also using less memory.
Thanks to our unique auto-vertical scaling – where you only pay for resource consumption, not instance size – this means using PHP 7 saves money. I’ll say that again, very slowly:
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