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Orcon owns iServe owns Kiwiwebhost

It was announced ( http://www.iserve.co.nz/news.php ) on the 1st May that Orcon have acquired iServe. iServe are the parent company for Kiwiwebhost. It seems like a remarkable coincidence that in the days leading up to this acquisition, Kiwiwebhost rushed into upgrading their servers from php4 / MySQL 4 to php5 / MySQL 5. Besides my moaning about all the hard work I had to suddenly do to get my one osCommerce website ready for this upgrade, I am ultimately pleased that the upgrade was made. PHP5 offers so much more in terms of Object Oriented Programming ( OOP ) as well as increased security. Kiwiwebhost have also turned Register Globals off. This closes a fundamental security hole. So well done to Kiwiwebhost for implementing a large upgrade in a short period of just two days with outages amounting to less than 12 hours per server that was being upgraded.