Your website online in 30 minutes. No PHP required.

The latest PHP security alert has left website owners facing an uncomfortable question: will keeping their website secure mean taking it offline?

On 21 October 2026, PHP released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute code on affected servers. Its security team urged users to update immediately.

If your business depends on its website, you need customers to keep finding you while your hosting provider deals with the problem.

Bernard can typically put a full working copy of your website online within 30 minutes, depending on the number of pages.

Your website, copied exactly and live on the web.

The same website, a simpler foundation

Many websites rely on PHP, a database and a content management system to build pages whenever someone visits.

Bernard copies the finished website as static HTML, together with its styling and images. It preserves the appearance and content of your existing site, without needing the original software to deliver those pages. How Bernard builds - lighter pages, greener hosting explains how the copy is made.

Your Bernard site has no PHP dependency and requires no database or running CMS to serve its pages.

Customers can visit, browse your services and read your content independently of your original hosting. Your existing website can be patched, repaired or taken offline without taking the Bernard copy down with it.

A working website

Static HTML doesn’t mean giving up useful features.

Bernard supports forms and much more, so visitors can still get in touch and take the next step with your business. Interactive features can connect to services that provide the functionality you need. Contacts and forms: a record for everyone who says yes shows where those enquiries go.

Features tied to your original system - such as customer accounts, live stock information or a checkout - need to be checked and connected separately. An exact copy of the pages preserves what visitors see; reproducing the services behind those pages needs its own attention. For payments, How to take card payments online in 2026, and what it really costs covers the options.

Remove the PHP dependency

A website that doesn’t run PHP isn’t exposed to these PHP vulnerabilities through its own serving software.

That doesn’t make every aspect of a website immune to security problems. It does remove an entire dependency from the public site, along with the need to keep that PHP installation patched.

For many business websites, this is a useful long-term choice as well as an immediate response to a security alert: keep the website customers know, with fewer systems required to keep it online.

If your site runs on WordPress, the same reasoning applies to its plugins: WordPress plugin updates - why they break your site, and how to stop minding them explains the upkeep, and WordPress site hacked again? Move out, and leave the malware behind covers what to do if a site has already been broken into.

Get your copy online

Bernard needs access to your website to copy it, so the best time to act is while the original site is still available.

The copy can typically be online within 30 minutes, depending on the number of pages. Switching your existing domain and checking connected features may take additional time. Keep your name and details the same everywhere explains how your web address stays yours, and How to move your website without losing your Google rankings covers keeping your place in Google.

Your hosting provider should still update any affected PHP installation. Meanwhile, Bernard can give your business an independent, working presence on the web.

Your website. Copied exactly. Online with Bernard.