After a long process (not as long as I thought though) I finally got all my systems and sites converted to the latest backend web systems. The reason I converted was because just yesterday www.php.net announced the “end of life” for PHP version 4, which is what I have been running on. So I figured I should start converting code and get it done now just to be on the safe side. PHP code was actually the biggest pain of all to convert. The login system I use to maintain user accounts and security for www.westerfunk.net was originally coded to use <? to begin the PHP scripts instead of <?php which worked fine in PHP 4.4.7. But once I began utilizing PHP 5.2, everything broke. First I had to narrow down what the problem was after searching forums, and then I had to address it. I wound up having to go through the login system code and change every <? to <?php and now it works very well. It’s good I’m standardized as far as the code is concerned, but man it would be nice to actually have some things easily transfer over from an older platform to a newer one. Anyway, in addition to that, while I was at it, I got all my DB schemas converted to MySQL 5.0.45 and moved that system over to my other server off of the main webserver which has definitely increased performance. This was relatively painless believe it or not. I installed MySQL, backed up the schemas off the old MySQL server, uploaded the saved schemas, assigned rights, and it was good to go. Glad that’s over …