<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Griffiths</b> <<a href="mailto:anisotropic@gmail.com">anisotropic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 3/24/07, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Agreed. I hope the landscape changes in favor of PHP5, but I am not<br>> holding my breath.<br><br>I think, er, actually I *know* that this issue has less to do with
<br>Linux distros and more to do with shared hosts. I chose dreamhost<br>because not only do they have a choice of php versions, they even let<br>you build your own if you want to.<br></blockquote></div><br>Yes, Dreamhost allows compiling your own version, however for any site
<br>with non-trivial amount of traffic it is useless. The reason is that they allow <br>you to compile your own as a CGI, which is very very inefficient (Linux forks <br>a new process in realtime for every incoming request).
<br><br>Here is an old article on this <a href="http://baheyeldin.com/click/389/5">http://baheyeldin.com/click/389/5</a><br clear="all"><br>So, it is really not an option.<br>-- <br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>
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