As myself and say, you can use x10 hosting, the link is in the documentation. If you’re a little unsure about it, you can select between 5.4 and 5.5 yourself.
Switch themes to cPanel when you’re logged in from here:
And scroll down until you see select PHP version:
Finally, just select the PHP version, and all should be okay in the tests that says you should do to test the PHP version:
Just make sure your $servername part of mmoconnection is localhost.
Easy enough really. 
Have fun and good luck with the kit!