PHP5 future seems secure
Finally my favourite hosting company called me today and informed me about their plans to create a PHP5 cluster server with Apache 2. I have been hastling them for some time regarding upgrading their technology and I am very eager to start taking advantage of the SOAP/XML services that are native to the new version. Viva PHP5!
It has been quite hard for hosting services to upgrade to PHP5 due to all the poor backwards compatibility, as PHP4 is not nearly as object oriented as PHP5. I am looking forward to taking on new templating systems like TAL and native SOAP/XML development and have to check out some of the database persistence available.
I have been invited to help in the testing stage which will be happening some time in the next couple of days. For me this is a great stage to build from here into full PHP5/Flex/AMF development to create powerful RIA components.
For people looking for a great PHP hosting service (that even mirrors PHP.net for Australia) look no further than Ilisys. Have a read of my summary on my article here:
- PHP Web Apps and Scalability: Load Balanced Australian hosting providers
