Yeah I had the same issue - constantly told PHP 5 was two weeks away, it took a few months! We'd been waiting since I think September last year and only moved servers about three weeks ago.
--- Katie Graham Designer & Web Developer 021 111 5466 On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Aaron Cooper <[email protected]>wrote: > > I pulled my mate off them last year as they were telling me they "were in > the process of building a PHP 5 server and ETA is 2 weeks". That was > extended another 2 weeks, then another, then "We are having technical > issues > implementing our PHP5 server" with an "indefinately" thrown in somewhere in > the email. We just got sick of it and threw his site up on Webdrive. I'll > be > pulling a couple new clients off them soon too. > > I find it hard to believe that a PHP host wishing to continue doing > business > would simply decide not to support PHP 5, or make it difficult for > customers > to use PHP 5. > > I may be lost in my own little world of decent servers here, but I figured > PHP 4 is pretty much totally obsolete. It's what - a decade old now? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Adams" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:35 PM > Subject: [phpug] Re: Hosting Query > > > > > > > > Egg on face - when i asked last year the reply was "we do not have any > > plan to upgrade". I emailed them the PHP end of support announcement for > > PHP4 as well. > > > > > > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:24:32 +1300 > > Came this utterance formulated by Katie Graham to my mailbox: > > > >> One of my clients uses kiwiwebhost and you have to request to be moved > >> to a new server running php 5 if you are currently on one of the old > >> php 4 ones. > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Hamish Campbell > >> <[email protected]>wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > That's weird, their website says all their servers have php 5.2.6 > >> > > >> > http://www.kiwiwebhost.co.nz/webhosting.htm > >> > > >> > On Mar 17, 5:02 pm, Michael Adams <[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> > > Anyone know of other cheap sites which allow multiple websites on > >> > > one account. I don't want to pay 5 bills. > >> > > > >> > > Reason for move - Kiwiwebhost has no plan to upgrade beyond PHP4. > >> > > This is now a security issue that i find remiss. I think iServe > >> > > may be preventing the update unless resistant customers are. > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > Michael > >> > > > >> > > All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things > >> > > shall be well > >> > > > >> > > - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > > >> > > > > > > -- > > Michael > > > > All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall > > be well > > > > - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
