Posted by NC on 12/07/05 10:57

Pugi! wrote:
>
> My webhost doesn't want to upgrade to PHP5 because of security
> reasons and some scripts that will mallfunction. I find it hard to
> believe. Current conf of webhost is PHP 4.3.11, Apache 1.3.33
> and MySQL 3.23.49.
> What real reasons could there be not to upgrade ?

Simple: why spend time and money to fix something that is not broken?
If most of the customers are reasonably happy with the current setup,
why change it?

> How could I convince them to upgrade to PHP5 ?

Ask them how much you'd have to pay them to do it for you. Then think
about whether you want the upgrade for that price.

> but why not upgrade to Apache 2.x

Because of its threading model:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php

Cheers,
NC

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