We will be upgrading our core web hosting servers to PHP version 5 at the beginning of February 2008. This update will cover all customers other than those with windows hosting accounts. We have stayed with version 4 for a number of years since the release of version 5 to keep existing sites that may contain php4-only functionality working, but there are a number of reasons why we now need to upgrade -

• PHP5 is increasingly becoming a requirement for newly designed websites.
• The goPHP5 initiative, which encourages open source projects to begin requiring version 5 by February 2008. Many important projects such as the Drupal CMS and the osCommerce online shop system support this.
• The PHP team themselves will be discontinuing support for version 4 on the 31st December 2007. This means no more releases, or updates will be available.

We encourage customers to check with the developer of their website that it will continue to function correctly on PHP version 5.

If you have any questions, please email support@userve.net.

Our antivirus system is current under extreme load which is causing it to take longer processing the message queue. This problem started around 12:30 this afternoon and should be back to normal by this evening.

No email should be lost but messages may be delayed.

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