Published on 2005-12-26 05:18:06
Harry Fuecks is talking about Shared Hosts and PHP5 Upgrades at SitePoint. In fact, switching to PHP5 for hosting providers still not the easy task due to backwards compatibility issues, the broken compatibilities from PHP4 to PHP5 made the switch very difficult for hosting providers.
We have the same problem. The backwardscompatibility issues are small, and we could easily fix our own apps. But we also do hosting for several hundreds of websites not created by us. Getting all our customers to fix their sites (and providing them with a means to test) will be hellish.
What strategies can be employed by shared hosts to deal with this problem? Given that there isn’t a magic wand to fix it and many shared hosts have limited manpower, what to do?
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