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by jbm 5378 days ago
The PHP4 thing is something I should have brought up. I was brought in to save a restaurant search website project from complete failure, but was horrified when the hosting company was incapable of running anything other than PHP4.

I had to have the president of the company call them and get them to move us to a server with PHP5. This was 2.5 years ago - well after when PHP4 was deadended.
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mahmud 5378 days ago
Why are you using a "hosting" company? Get a $20 VPS or spend more, or any of your inhouse boxen or whatever.

Sheesh.

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jbm 5378 days ago
Not my call, brought in at end. Even then, I wouldn't have suggested it either. Managing servers is not a cheap or fun job; if their site was successful it would have made future sense and migrating was easy.

Regardless, setting PHP4 as the default in 2009 is idiotic.

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