Warning of possible problems with the Forum.

[Peterae]

OK Chaps here's a quote from hostgator just to prepare everyone for some possible down time, this is happening at the worst time for me as i have very little time to iron problems out, i will do my best to keep the site up  

Regarding your shared hosting account on  gator3207.hostgator.com with the primary domain name overunityresearch.com

We're writing to inform you of an important change in your server's default configuration that may affect your websites. The default
version of PHP employed by our servers will be updated to PHP 5.4 on 5/12/2014. We will be attempting to automatically detect the
compatibility of overunityresearch.com and any other addon domains you have, but we want to ask you to please log into your cPanel and test all of
your sites using PHP 5.4 by following the directions given in this article:

[TutorialFE]

on this forum there are information shared I hope it stays around in memory ....

[Chet K]

Peter
I know its going to be a tuff time for you in the next few months
RE: the work which needs to be done on the forum ....

can others help with this? [we may have some capable and trustworthy hands??]
also perhaps the costs for the future should be discussed at some point ?



thx
Chet

[Peterae]

Not really Chet, i think we will be OK.

Once i get myself sorted out i will overhaul the website to the latest version, i have just downloaded a complete backup just in case of any problems.

[e2matrix]

I've run a couple SMF based forums (no expert on them though) but not sure I'd have the time to do this now.   My guess is that hostgator is just giving a warning but most likely there won't be any real problems in that PHP update.   It would be stupid for PHP to have an update that would kill a forum.   Might have some minor issues but I suspect it will still be usable. 

[Peterae]

Hi e2
Yeah i am hoping it will all go without a hitch, it looks like i may have the option of switch back to the older version of PHP is i need too, i must update this forum at some point anyway just a pain with the mods we did.

Cheers
Peter