So, I went to my site yesterday and got a database error. Since I just renewed my hosting with DreamHost, I assumed I had messed that up in some way. DreamHost makes it super handy to look this stuff up, but nothing seemed awry. They also have a site called Dreamhoststatus.com where you can go to see if your server is up and I didn’t see anything there. There was a note that said that DreamHost would no longer support (scary tech speak follows) PHP4 but that those of us who joined in the last “few years” should be fine.
Well, you can count me as one who joined in the last few years but was NOT fine. Boo, hiss! However, they had a neato thing where I could chat live with a real live technical person (I hope he was real, live and really named Ian) and “Ian” told me my version of PHP was old. Oh well. He fixed it. Yay “Ian”! Yay for never having to really troubleshoot tech stuff for my blog!