PHP 5

[adscott]

When is the PHP service going to be upgraded to PHP 5?

Thanks

[bruce]

we do not have an exact date yet.

Bruce

DiscountASP.NET
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[edified]

Any update? Is this a work in progress or a rainy day venture?

Ed

Post Edited (Edified) : 11/4/2006 7:40:37 PM GMT

[bruce]

We are not actively testing PHP5 because of the backward compatibility problem and lack of demand.

Afterall, DiscountASP.NET is a windows focused host that specialized in ASP.NET hosting.

Bruce

DiscountASP.NET
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[edified]

That's reasonable.

I'm trying all this out because my friend Brock Human (http://brockhuman.com/) wanted some help and already has hosting here. If I can't get this all working I still have about 2TB of bandwidth over at Dreamhost (http://dreamhost.com/) so I'll just move the DNS and use Apache/PHP/mySQL. That being said it's always nice to get out and experience different hosting services and it's encouraging that the forums actually get read, even if the answers (http://community.discountasp.net/default.aspx?f=23&m=14167) aren't the ones I would want. Thank you.

Cheers, Ed

P.S. At this point many open PHP applications are PHP5 coompatible

Ed Palma (http://edified.org/resume) - edified.org (http://edified.org/)

[mjp]

Edified said...

P.S. At this point many open PHP applications are PHP5 coompatible

That may be true, but much customer-written code will probably not be. A lot of unix hosts have to run 4 and 5 concurrently for that very reason. I don't see us going that route, for the reasons Bruce cited; it's not our niche, and the demand so far is pretty much nil.







mjp
DiscountASP.NET
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[edified]

10-4. I hear you.

Ed Palma (http://edified.org/resume) - edified.org (http://edified.org/)

[vicemind]

I have a hosting account on a Unix server too, and they are actually running an older version of PHP than discountasp.net =)

That said, I really hope PHP support stays here, even if it's low priority.

[joelnet]

PHP support itself isn't low priority. Currently there just isn't that much of a demand for PHP5 because, for most people, PHP4 meets all their requirements.






Joel Thoms
DiscountASP.NET
http://www.DiscountASP.NET