[PHP5] Upgrades are complete

We have successfully updated all of our servers to run PHP5 by default. All of our accounts are now running PHP5 unless you have specifically written in requesting that your account be turned back over to PHP4.

One thing to note, if you run into issues with PHP5 and your scripts check to make sure that you are running the latest version of that script. It cannot be stressed enough as to how important it is that you keep your scripts up-to-date. Keeping your script up-to-date avoids problems with your script being exploited by malicious users and hackers. It is in everyone’s best interest to keep your script up-to-date. It keeps the servers from being exploited and it keeps your website up and running without being defaced or used for some other malicious activity.

A lot of developers may have made recent changes to their scripts that are required in order to make the script work with PHP5. PHP5 is the future of PHP, everything is moving to PHP5 and sooner or later PHP4 will be completely in the past and no longer supported. This is why it is important that you have your scripts updated to work with PHP5 the sooner the better. If you are running the latest version of a script and it is still not working with PHP5, then you need to contact the developer of that script and find out why it is not working with PHP5 and what they are going to do about this. If a script developer wants their script to continue to work in the webhosting industry, it is going to have to support PHP5.

I don’t have a problem with setting your account to use PHP4, but please don’t confuse this with a permanent solution. If your account is set back to use PHP4, then this should only be viewed as a temporary measure put in place to get your website working while the issues with the script and PHP5 are worked out.

At any rate, I wanted to inform all of our users that PHP5 is live and active on all of our servers now. If you encounter any problems, please submit a support request so that our support technicians can handle your issue.

Thank You
Steven