Thanks everyone. The problem is the arcade that is part of the site needs zend encoder and on shared hosting they will not upgrade the zend to the version to go with 8.x php as it is a shared machine or so they tell me. So when we quit working we will change platform to SMF as it has its own arcade and built in support for current php versions. I keep backups of the complete site however, will not be of much use as we will have to go to our backup plan. I have been a user of multiple IPB licenses since the first FREE version of IPB. I will surely miss using it. The site does not make money and the owner I maintain the site for cannot afford VPS and even if they could do not have teh technical knowledge to maintain it. Would be awesone if they would enable zend version that supported php 8.x then we would surely upgrade to current versions of eveyrthing.