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Pinball Nirvana will be down on Thursday and I'm not sure at this point when it will be back. I received a email from the hosting company that the PHP version that this site needs to run (5.6) will be changed to 7.2 on that day, they mention that the site can be reverted to 5.6 for a few weeks but after that 5.6 will be gone.
Upgrading the php version also happened in October of 2014 and the last time of January 2016 almost killed the site, VBulletin 3.8 or 4.2 can't run with PHP 7.2 and the 5 series doesn't support any Add Ons, the Downloads would be gone. I was advised to look into a dedicated server but that is not an option due to the cost, also was looking into a VPS environment where you supposedly can choose your PHP version, it would more than double the hosting cost but today I received this:
Upgrading the php version also happened in October of 2014 and the last time of January 2016 almost killed the site, VBulletin 3.8 or 4.2 can't run with PHP 7.2 and the 5 series doesn't support any Add Ons, the Downloads would be gone. I was advised to look into a dedicated server but that is not an option due to the cost, also was looking into a VPS environment where you supposedly can choose your PHP version, it would more than double the hosting cost but today I received this:
It looks like going to a VPS with a different hosting company would just be delaying the problems down the road. Today, I found a DownloadsII importer for a older version of XenFora but found out that XenForo 1 add-ons are not compatible with XenForo 2, I'll try and do some more resarching.I completely understand your situation. However, PHP 5.6 is going to be completely removed from our servers no matter what. Even getting a VPS machine will only give a bit more of time, but in a couple of weeks it will be completely removed from there as well.
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