PHP Upgrade Broke Your Website? Stranded by Your Host — We'll Fix It

Your host force-upgraded PHP and your site didn't survive it. We make your code compatible — today.

🚨 Book My Same-Day Fix — $29
Flat fees, shown before you pay·No fix, no fee·$29 credited to your invoice·Remote across U.S. & Canada·EN / FR·Flat fees, shown before you pay·No fix, no fee·$29 credited to your invoice·Remote across U.S. & Canada·EN / FR·

What you're seeing

Host emailed about a PHP upgrade, then the site broke

White screen or fatal errors mentioning "deprecated" or "undefined function"

Host support shrugs: "your code needs updating"

Book this fix — $29 reserves your same-day slot

In the service list, pick "Broken after an update". Flat fee: $197–$397 USD. Final price confirmed on your diagnostic call. No hourly billing. No surprises.

Not sure which one? Pick the closest — your technician confirms it on the call, and the price is set by what it actually turns out to be.

We text you the moment your diagnostic is booked, then call this number.

Emergency diagnostic$29.00
Selected symptom
Due now$29.00
A technician calls you by

The fix price is quoted on that call, before any work starts. The $29.00 comes off it.

No fix, no fee. Full refund if we can't reach you, or if it turns out to be something we can't fix. Refund policy.

You're booked — a technician calls you by {{callback_time}}.

Your diagnostic is reserved. Keep your phone nearby; the call comes from a number you won't recognise.

Your call: {{callback_time}} Checking the queue…

While you wait, don't do these three things

  • 🗑️Don't delete anythingNot files, not plugins, not the "suspicious" folder. Whatever is there is what your technician reads to work out what happened.
  • Don't restore an old backup over itRestoring on top usually overwrites the evidence and, if the way in is still open, you get re-infected within hours.
  • 🧑‍🔧Don't let anyone else start work on itTwo people changing things at once turns a one-hour fix into a three-hour one. Your technician calls shortly.
Want the call to go faster? Answer what you know Optional — every answer is one less question on the call. "Not sure" is a fine answer.

Why this happens

Hosts retire old PHP versions on THEIR schedule because running them is a security risk — and they're right to. But the burden lands on you: themes and plugins written for PHP 7 can fatally error on PHP 8. Owners get stranded between a host that won't downgrade and a developer who vanished years ago. That's the exact gap we fill. The fix is making the code compatible: patching deprecated calls in custom code, updating what has updates, replacing what's abandoned.

What we do

The exact fix steps for this problem.

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Inventory what breaks under the new PHP version

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Update plugins/themes that have compatible versions

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Patch custom code (deprecated functions, syntax changes)

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Replace truly abandoned components with maintained ones

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Verify the whole site on the new PHP, then report

Four reasons this is a safe thing to do at 2 a.m.

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Flat fee, never hourly

The price is agreed before we touch anything. No meter, no surprise invoice.

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$29 back if we can't start

Can't start today, or you cancel before work begins? Full refund.

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No fix, no fee

If we can't solve it, you don't pay for it. We only take jobs we can finish.

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Credentials handled safely

Secure one-time link, never email. Rotated and documented when we're done.

Never go through this again

Care plans from $99/mo — daily backups, updates, uptime + malware monitoring. Rescue clients get their first month 50% off.

See care plans

Questions about this fix

Sometimes temporarily — worth asking as triage — but the old version WILL be removed. We fix forward so the deadline stops mattering.
The fatal error names the file. We read the logs, so you don't have to guess.
Almost never — deprecated calls in an old theme are usually patchable in place. Your design stays.
Book anyway via our emergency page (/sample/site-rescue-experts/emergency) — the diagnostic call sorts the label, and the $29 credits to whatever the fix turns out to be. Afterwards, a care plan (/sample/site-rescue-experts/website-care-plans) keeps it from happening again.

Broken after an update — Flat fee $197–$397 USD, shown before you book.

Typical agency emergency work is billed hourly at $150–$250/hr, and a job like this runs most shops 4–10 hours. Yours is a flat $197–$397 USD — agreed before we touch anything. Reserve today's slot for $29 USD — credited toward the fix, refunded in full if we can't start today or you cancel before work begins.

Book My Same-Day Fix — $29

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