This may be of interest to some: I did research and found out that 58 out of 67 web hosts in Finland either offer PHP 5.4 or 5.5 right now or at least starting from summer 2014 (5.3 EOL is in July). An increasing number of web hosts give their customers the ability to switch PHP versions (with .htaccess or some web interface). It seems this trend will speed up the installation of fresh PHP versions.