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Cheap Webhoster offering PHP 4.x
Hi friends,
To bring some old scripts I bought back to live, I wonder if there is a webhoster here who offers PHP 4?
I found sone using google but they are pretty expensive or just missed to update the specs for years.
I would be happy to receive some offers here 
//Edit: just for information: Some hosters seems to improve the security of their php4-servers.
Like: https://www.falkenseer.net/php4/
(No advertising or smth like that - I don't know the guys running this service)
So maybe sone others do so, too? 
Regards,
Basti
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None. There is no active, sane repo containing such version of php.
The cheapest would be find a sub $10/year VPS and install PHP 4 on it.
Yep, the security risk would be too high.
This is the way.
Yeah man buy a VPS and do this nobody in their right mind would offer web hosting with PHP 4 in 2025 🤣
Why just why?..... Are you okay? Do you need help? Call... 9...1...1...
Just edited my first post to show there are providers which insecures their php4-servers as business model.
some hosts are still offering php4 is only for gaining backdoor access to some php scripts. its in secure. and anyone using those scripts open their site been hacked!
Just create local VM on your PC. Download source from PHP archive, compile. Mount your scripts and rewrite everything to PHP 8.4. 80% of PHP 4 can be fed to claude 3.7 and automatically rewritten for you. I have revived dead PHP libraries in that way. Copy/paste and write "optimize and make it compatible to PHP 8.4". Bam and from 3rd time library works.
Agree.
Maybe, even their entire server has already been hacked without anyone knowing about it.
So using them is like openly sharing your code and data.
Sounds like a good trick using AI.
Thanks for your help!
Ooops
In the meantime, any recommendations for ASP 3.0 hosts?
We have a heirloom script written in ASP 3.0 with Access database.
It contains telephone number of our high school crush that we'd like to call.
Tbh Claude 3.7 with extended thinking is awesome
wtf
I had a hard time even to find a webhost that keeps up with PHP7 (because I have a legacy website that is no longer developed). So in the end I use a docker with apache+php7 so now I have no dependency on webhost anymore which is great, I think you should try that!
The last version of PHP 4 was 4.4, which has been EOL since August 2008, which was 16.5 years ago
No offers
The oldest we offer on 20i is 5.3
It would be better to rewrite the code using AI or rewrite it manually enough to work on PHP 5.3 and then using https://github.com/rectorphp/rector to get it further working with PHP 8+
The other way out is to compile php4 and run it on a VPS, but ideally not a good idea, because for example: CloudLinux too dropped support for PHP4 back in 2022 too, https://blog.cloudlinux.com/php-4.4-end-of-life-0
Nice approach and useof AI
I am renting the use of my time machine...
I think you should try with Docker
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Greetings,
We do not support PHP 4 in Web Hosting plans, but if you need this version specifically, you can choose our VPS Server plans located in Turkey/Istanbul. You can run your project with software such as Wampserver or XAMPP, but our recommendation is to upgrade to higher versions due to security vulnerabilities
Regards,
https://tarisu.com
4.4 is carried by cloudlinux just fine and they do patches for it.
We have it available in NameCrane.
Francisco
ipv1 ready?
Do they still support it? Someone already posted a link to their blog mentioning it's not going to be supported anymore. According to their helpdesk it isn't supported anymore: https://cloudlinux.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4414748358930-List-of-supported-PHP-versions
By the looks of it your Directadmin does not support PHP 4.4 anymore. I can only select versions from 5.1. In your cPanel hosting I can select PHP 4.4 though.
@Bastiroso I still have a leagcy 5G cPanel package with namecrane. In case they allow transfers of legacy services I can transfer it to you. It's $8 per year with 5G storage.
I don’t think they do patches for it.
On the shared link they say:
And they give advice to hosting providers on how to remove it because of the above.
My mistake then. They did updates, but stopped in 2023
Francisco
I suspect existing (pre-2022/23) installations of CloudLinux still carry/have PHP 4.4 (unless manually uninstalled), but since it doesn't get any updates from CloudLinux since 2022/23 or so, most likely newer installations do not get the ability to install it.
So if a provider has it already, that could be an option I guess too.
No worries! I appreciate their efforts but honestly if software is important, it should have been updated since PHP 4