Just upgraded my HostGator to php 5.4!!!!

So I tried to upgrade Broadcast from 1.8 last fall and of course got the failed error cause my version was 5.2.17. Contacted them and they gave me this page to “keep checking”.

https://sitename.com/phpinfo.php
Just create a php page that has this:

<?php
phpinfo()
?>

Tonight I straight forwardly said that I needed to upgrade my php to 5.4 do update a key plugin and if this was not possible, I would be moving my hosting elsewhere. He said no problem and put me on hold.

I wanted them to do a account backup prior to doing it just incase but when he came back he had already added the two lines of code.

I suspect it was this
https://support.hostgator.com/articles/hosting-guide/hardware-software/php-5-4

# Use PHP 5.4
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php54 .php

Which I had just tried and it broke the site giving me 500 error page which it also did to him. He put me back on hold and went and did something… and then it started working again.

So yay! Here I go to upgrade.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/threewp-broadcast/