Over the past year, we’ve constantly gotten emails about why we run old versions of PHP. The simple answer was “we can’t”.
When PHP created PHP 5.3.x, they rewrote a lot of the functions that PHP 5.2.x had, causing the majority of scripts out there to not work. As a web hosting provider, we have to make decisions every day on what’s the best decision for our clients — do we enable PHP 5.3.x knowing that it will not work with older scripts such as WordPress, but allow newer scripts to work with our system such as the new versions of Joomla? The cons of PHP 5.3.x always out-weighed the pros and therefore we always kept on the PHP 5.2.x branch….. until now.
I’m happy to report all of our Litespeed servers now support both PHP 5.2.x and PHP 5.3.x versions. By default, our customers will always use PHP 5.2.x, however if you wish to use PHP 5.3,x, it’s a simple line to your .htaccess file.
AddType application/x-httpd-php53 php53 php
Enjoy!
Nice to hear this!
PHP 5.3.x is good but 5.2.x still widely use and migrating from 5.2.x to 5.3.x is quite a hassle.
But the option for using 5.3.x is a good option.
I think I’ve got a performance boost with php 5.3.6. Good to see hosts that want to have the latest tech.