[wp-forums] Sending up the bat signal with needs-dev

[Otto]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:05 AM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
> Biggest possible issue I've noticed so far - Yahoo Business are still
> running PHP 4! Some business hosts they are.

Yahoo Business supports PHP 5:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/php/php-07.html

The main problem I foresee there is people running MySQL 4. Changing a
site from MySQL 4 to MySQL 5, even if they support both, is
non-trivial. Generally you have to export the DB, create a new DB, and
import into that.

-Otto