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I am more than willing to help you build php and anything needed for your server. Thx again, very generous. I am discussing my options with the host provider. In the end, it is their box that I am renting, to which they are supposed to offer support. At least, that's what I've been paying them for ...

Thanks all for your contributions. So my options are really limited since I'm no way planning to tackle this upgrade myself. You'd probably already guessed that by the nature of my questions.

You can, if you're crazy enough (as in you tromp around in your underwear and answer to the name Napoleon Bonaparte), try to upgrade Fedora versions. Meaning, (apart from me having to put a cover over my webcam, bugger how did you know) that upgrade from one FC to another isn't a matter of click an...

Thanks Michael for your extensive answer, it's much appreciated. I was afraid the answer would generally be as you provided it. Personally I have no preference for an OS, as long as it (is Linux for the server, duh) reliably and securely does the job it's supposed to do. Allow me an additional quest...

I'm renting a dedicated server, it's running for two years now. FedoraCore 5, with PHP 5.1.6, Plesk 9.0.1. Now, more and more apps require PHP 5.2 and it isn't available on the box. Support says that PHP 5.2 and Plesk won't go together. To my mind this is a load of smelly stuff, but hey, they are su...