The current version of PHP which is 5.6 has reached the end of life on 19th Jan 2017. PHP team has stopped support for 5.6, and no more new features added.
Security support for 5.6 is up to Jan 2019. On Jan 2019 PHP 5.6 officially dead.
The newer version of Linux and server software has already stopped supporting PHP 5.6 which creates a huge security risk.
Updating old server will be hard as it may break the PHP due to compatibility issues.
All major PHP libraries and frameworks will drop support for PHP 5.6
7.2 end of life is in Jan 2021
7.2 is so much faster than 5.6
7.X has new Zend Engine
Reduction in the memory usage
Consistent 64bit support
Better Error handling
More secure & better handling with SSL and cryptography
After 4 long years finally, I released an update for WordPress Amazon S3 Plugin. Thanks to Awad Abdelgayoum for inspiring me to blog again. For nearly couple of years, I haven’t been blogging anything interesting or worth reading.
My blog was almost dying due to lack of new content. So while investigating my S3 plugin had stopped working. I searched for alternative and most of it was very complicated or too much for the blog. So I decided to update the plugin and make it work for the newly updated WordPress.
Today I was searching for few keywords which were property and real estate related. Shocked to see most of the top result for the search was an advertisement from property developers.
Google Search Result for the keyword “property in dubai”Google Search Result for the keyword “real estate in dubai”
Half of the result in the page was Adwords campaign of few top real-estate companies in Dubai. Google has made it look like a typical result with a small distinction between paid and actual search result.
As a regular user with average screen size all you will be looking at first glance is the advertisement. Most of the users will not even scroll further to see what is the actual search result.
What happens to people who focus on SEO? Are they f___ked?
Is there any scope for organic SEO? Most of the SEO experts I know already stopped doing SEO and getting certified as SEM experts.
How much money are the companies willing to pay Google? What happens to small business who cannot spend so much money for placing ads with Adwords? Are they f__ked?
Google Web Search has become Google Ad Search. Google has turned so greedy and so evil.
