Yesterday, we “upgraded” the four older servers to remove PHP 4.X track from your available options. As it’s getting close to the PHP4 End of Life moment (2008-08-08 is D-Day for PHP4) we wanted to go ahead and make the jump now as both versions have been running for almost a full year. We also took the time to upgrade PHP to 5.2.6, as well as compile mysqli as an option. Everything went well and it appears most of you have made the jump to PHP5.X, as there was no mad rush to the ticket desk.

We also wanted to let you know that there are two new staff members covering the tickets, and if you’ve submitted one within the past few weeks you may have met them. Thomas Williams, and Brian Hochstein have joined the team - they both have some familiarity with hosting, and while Thomas is familiar with hosting in general Brian’s pretty familiar with DrakNet as a whole, so give them some time to get up to speed and if you feel you need to have your ticket upped, please don’t hesitate to ask politely. As always, abuse of our staff is just not tolerated here - we’re geeky tech hippies and too laid back to smile while people call us names, so give them some slack while they’re learning about ya’lls quirks.

You’ve got a few weeks left to get yourself on the MySQL 5 server with some leeway time, as in mid-July we’re upgrading all servers to MySQL 5. We’ve had very few requests for this, so we’ll warn you now we’re not going to have an immense amount of sympathy if your stuff is not compatible with the current recommended version of MySQL. We can get you moved over in a few minutes while maintaining your old installation so if you need to take advantage, do so, and soon.

We should get back to our snarky banter posts soon.