Is your old website costing you money?

Sep 2016

If you’re with a mainstream UK web hosting company like 1-and-1 and operating an old-ish website then consider what you may be paying just to keep your old website going.

1-and-1 recently increased their charges for what they call “Extended Support for older PHP” to over £60 per year. This charge is on top of your normal domain registration and web hosting expenses, and it isn’t optional.

Why are hosting companies charging extra?

The fee is to cover the additional security impact to 1-and-1 of running an unsupported version of PHP. This makes sense; versions 4, 5.2 and 5.4 of PHP are no longer getting security updates from the PHP Community and that represents a security headache for hosts like 1-and-1.

So, if you were already thinking about a design refresh, some extra features or a whole new website, then check whether you’re being charged extra just to keep your old website limping through each month.

What to do?

It might help you decide it’s time to say goodbye to your old website. Talk to us about a new, modern, responsive site to better support your business.