Over the weekend our Linux web hosting infrastructure was upgraded to PHP 5.3. The previous release of PHP 5.1.6 was getting out of date for a lot of social applications that dominate todays deployment base. You will now be able to run the latest Wordpress, Joomla and other CMS and shopping cart sites without a problem.
If you have any legacy PHP applications that were written in PHP4 and early PHP5 days, you may notice that some functionality does not work. Consult your software vendor for an update that functions with PHP 5.3 and above.
If your application is not supported on the new platform of PHP and you do not have the resources to make an immediate switch to an alternative, we do have a www2legacy web infrastructure in place that will support older applications. We will make the accommodations and the switch to the legacy platform for a small one-time fee but do keep in mind that the legacy platform will be discontinued in March of 2013. We have provided more than a 1 year announcement of our intention to upgrade our network infrastructure to the latest PHP so if this caught you by surprise we will still do what we can to make sure you have a smooth transition.
For a list of features in PHP 5.3.x and old deprecated functions:
http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php
This is probably an excellent place to start your troubleshooting on outdated code. If you decide you’d like to stay with the legacy code please open a support request at https://support.ownwebnow.com if you’d like further information.
