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Need help upgrading an old website to php 5.3

I have an older website created (I think) in Dreamweaver. It was written in php 5.0. GoDaddy, my cpanel hosting account that I'm trying to move it to, is telling me that a php5.0 website, has to be upgraded to 5.3 or higher because they don't offer 5.0 anymore.
Can anyone tell me how to easily and successfully upgrade a 5.0 to 5.5, or if you know of a hosting company that still uses 5.0, I could go that route too.

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Ray Paseur

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Thanks, you give me all the info except how to upgrade it. Because the site is being comandeered by an ex-employee, he's not letting us have access to it. So I'm taking the files I have, which are current, and moving the to siteground. They still support 5.0 and lower, so this resolves my immediate issue.

Your suggestion to parallel it is awesome. But being that I'm not much of an HTML, or PHP guy, I'm looking for directions step by step.

Appreciate all you can send my way.

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Ray Paseur

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Thanks Ray. Appreciate the input. I was told there are conversion tools out there, but I can't seem to find any, hence my EE Question. I'm not a HTML guru but have been a certified network engineer for over 20 years. The amount of money we are bringing in on this project doesn't justify hiring a specialist. The end game sadly will be to just have this site put on a host that still supports 5.0 (they are out there).

It's what I get for being a nice boss. Tried to give a guy some sidework, then he decides he needs to go to Disneylands birthday instead of work. I said no, he said I quit, and it's been an ongoing battle ever since. Hey live and learn I say.

Idiots abound and I guess this is my punishment for hiring this guy.

Again, appreciate the input.

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I had to move the website to siteground.com. They still support php 5.0. I had an issue with the database in that the old code was pointing directly to the existing website. When I moved it, we had to point it to the new website, but other than that, it worked great. Sorry for the delay in awarding points.

Ray Paseur

In case your experience with SiteGround turns out to be like my experience with SiteGround, you might want to consider using one of the hosting companies that is supportive of the PHP community.
http://php.net/thanks.php