I have codebase from year 2009, the company which developed the solution encoded it with zend guard encoder 5.5 with PHP version 5.2.
Currently , I am running it on VPS with Windows Server with installing php 5.2 and zend guard extension without any hassle.
Now , I want to shift it to Any Linux Server as Maintaining windows server is getting expensive ( +19% GST in india ).
Issue is I am not able to install PHP 5.2 literally on any modern VPS. as PHP 5.2 EOL half decade ago , no Linux Distro supporting it now. I tried all the ways adding numorous repos, compiling from source , nothing seems to work.
According to Zend Forum : https://zend18.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217058968 It needs to be php 5.2 only.
Even Digitalocean , Godaddy VPS not supporting absolute Linux Distros. and i dont think Dedicated server is Valid Option.
Please let me know what is the way to do it.