Being with ANHosting.com for almost a year, I have to say that I am happy with their services so far. Although there are many instances that the server was unstable, they were resolved in reasonable manners. So what is next?

ANHosting will start rolling out PHP5 on all servers beginning Nov 1st.

What does that mean to me? By running multiple domains on the same hosting servers, it comes the time to pay attention on the web application written with PHP. I have few questions popup in my mind.

  • Does my blog work with PHP5?
  • What application will encounter error?
  • Will my application failed with PHP5?
  • What benefit will I get with PHP5?

As far as I understood, PHP5 offers a lot more features, stabilities and speed.

I don’t believe that WordPress will fail. I have already installed it on one of my PHP5 servers. However, I am not sure if the plug-ins are going to survive with the upgrade.

I have used PHP’s third party module PHP ADODB script in some of my applications, which allows me to write a better code to connect to database such as MySQL, MSSQL or Oracle. The script has to be upgraded.

One last thing I will pay attention to is the magic_quote settings. I did encounter error when I upgrade to PHP5 from PHP4 on one of my servers. Depends on who installed the PHP5, it may turn magic_quote on by default. In most of the case, the magic_quote should be turn off. This is my common practice. I hate PHP converting the single quote into a backslash single quote, when doing database connection.

I will keep eyes on this upgrade. Hopefully, nothing went wrong.

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