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Pearl River, New York - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 15, 2007 - Web hosting firm, Easy CGI, has adopted the new PHP 5.2.4 application, while maintaining support for the old version, PHP 4.4.4.

WIth the new program, customers may maintain their existing web programming, add new pages using the more powerful PHP 5, or migrate to the new application completely, but at their own pace.

Easy CGI, a Microsoft-certified hosting partner, has added PHP 5.2.4 support for those of its customers who want increased levels of interactivity, greater speed and enhanced usability features. However, since legacy PHP scripts may not run on the newest version of PHP, Easy CGI is committed to letting customers choose either version of PHP on any directories within their websites.

Since the PHP development team wrote PHP5 from scratch, it represents more than a simple upgrade of the already robust and easy-to-use PHP4. Web developers and hosters worldwide regard it as an important new stage in the evolution and maturation of the PHP programming language. According to data compiled by Netcraft, PHP is the world’s most popular server-side scripting language, and runs nearly 20 million websites worldwide.

Improvements over PHP 4 that are available in PHP5 include:

• better support for object oriented programming and MySQL
• an integrated suite of interoperable XML tools
• better error handling
• improved SOAP handling (for Websites with network firewall concerns)
• more flexible and powerful data handling tools

Easy CGI has undertaken extensive testing to make sure that adding PHP 5 support will not adversely affect any of its hosting customers. It also provides customers with a Web-based hosting control panel that lets them toggle easily between the two PHP versions. By supporting both versions of PHP, Easy CGI makes it possible for customers to mix and match different types of Web pages, or, if desired, migrate gradually all their pages from PHP 4 to PHP 5.

The decision to support both versions represents a departure from industry norms. Ted Beckwith, Vice President of Easy CGI explained, ”For most hosting companies, when new versions of applications come out, it becomes a challenge to support current customers while catering to new ones. Easy CGI is able to accommodate both by offering the best of both world’s when it comes to PHP.”

Recently, Easy CGI partnered with eBridge Marketing Solutions, which has provided marketing services for Easy CGI in the past, so that its customers may now have access to the same service solutions to assist in promoting their online businesses.

Easy CGI has been in the web hosting industry since 1994, offering technology, with cost effective, efficient solutions and customer service.

To learn more about Easy CGI’s shared hosting plans featuring PHP5, please visit: www.easycgi.com/services/overview.html

For more information about Easy CGI, please visit: www.easycgi.com.

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