Hi Tim,

Looks like my website is going to moved to another server and I was wondering whether you think there will be any migration compatibility issues?

I am on Photocart 7.1.0

Here is the email my hosting company sent:

". . . We have new servers that have been recently released than can run up to PHP 7.0 and MySQL 5.6. We expect to have all customers migrated to these servers in the coming months.

If you are interested in a manual migration, this can be performed during our helpdesk hours of 8am - 6pm and would involve approximately 10-15 minutes of downtime. Please be aware that the migration would be performed on a "best effort" basis and we cannot guarantee the successful migration of data. For this reason it is recommended that you perform your own data backup of the site content prior to the migration in case of any issues.

There may be compatibility issues, especially for database content due to the newer version of MySQL. If there is any compatibility issues, reverse migrations back to the original platform are unfortunately not possible once a migration has been initiated . . ."

What are your thoughts?

Cheers
Simon

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Photo Cart is not compatible with PHP 7 so you would need to make sure PHP 5 (5.4 or 5.6) is available on the new server.

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Thanks Tim,
I also run Sytist on the same server. Would migration effect this sites php files as well?
Cheers
Simon

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Sytist is compatible with PHP 5 & 7 so that will be fine.

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Hi Tim,
My hosting provider says its new server can do 5.4.45 or 5.6.33. So it looks like I can place PhotoCart on there as well. Is there anything I need to do or let them know about before I go ahead?
Cheers
Simon

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I think it will be all fine.

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