The Summer of Your Potential Discontent
Alakazam is now up and running, and houses several folks that moved as well as several new sign ups. Since this are running smoothly there it’s time to address the rest of you antiquated folks.
We’re going to step each thing up slowly so that we can narrow down what upgrade is causing what problem, should you have any problems.
June 16, 2008
On June 16th, we’re going to cease offering PHP4 across all 4 remaining servers and move exclusively to PHP5 only. This is for security reasons, both for the server and because any php scripts that aren’t compatible with PHP yet aren’t really going to be scripts we want on the servers. You have had many, many months with both to prepare for the move over where you had both available to you and we feel it’s now time.
July 7, 2008
We’ll upgrade to MySQL 5 from MySQL 4. Again, we have a box with 5 now - if you have any question or concern that your site will not work with MySQL 5 or that you’ll need to do work on it to make it compatible, you need to speak up now. After July 7th, everyone will have 5 and if you need 4, you won’t be able to find it here.
August 4, 2008
Finally, we’ll be upgrading Apache. The only real issue will be that your password protection will need to be redone after the upgrade. If you have password protected directories, you may want to submit them to us so we can make sure they are re-secured.
Please note that the following programs have no need to be tested and are compatible with standard installations:
- Wordpress 2.5 and up
- Soholaunch recent versions
Thanks for letting us know about Wordpress and Soholaunch. You just answered my question that was on my list of “things to do this week”.
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Janice Schwarz on June 11th, 2008 at 10:09 pm