I have an old site that I want to continue hosting that requires PHP 5.x. If you know anything about PHP there is very little backward compatibility between major versions and this site needs PHP 5.6 because it is running old software that cannot be upgraded. Please include support for PHP 5.6.
PHP 5.6 no longer receives security maintenance which means having it included in the servers will cause security issues and exploits.
You need to find an alternative which supports newer PHP versions.
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if you upgrade to premium hosting on ifastnet then you’ll gain the ability to select various php versions including 5.6 which has been security fixed for your safety 
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If there is anything I know about PHP is that I only ever had very minor issues upgrading between major versions. There is plenty of software that works just fine on PHP 8.3 but also PHP 5.6 and everything in between.
Well written PHP 5 code works just fine on PHP 8. Upgrading to PHP 7 was (and is) mainly an issue for projects that were using outdated code to begin with, most notably the mysql_* functions.
We removed support for PHP 5 some time ago because it was becoming a hazard to the security of our platform. And while outdated code is still a problem almost 8.5 years after PHP 7 was released, we’re not going to add new support for severely outdated software to free hosting.
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