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Posted by John Murtari on 03/09/06 21:14
Aziz <no_spam@spamco.com> writes:
> I've recently contacted technical service of a web hosting company and
> asked them wheter or not they're gonna upgrade to PHP5 and
> MySQL5. Here's a quote from their response which confused me a little:
>
> "As php5 and mysql5 are still beta versions we don't install beta
> versions on production servers due to secure reasons, we install only
> current working versions on production servers"
Well, I happen to work in tech support at a web
hosting company. Given a large installed base (and many webmasters
who don't really know how their sites work), we are careful on upgrades.
We are now offering MySQL 5 on a test basis to our customers (and if
you want to pass this on to your current provider -- if they are
running MySQL 4.1.x right now -- the upgrade is pretty painless. We
were suprised).
Regarding PHP 5, that is a different story. While I don't
agree with their 'beta' reason. I can tell you from experience when
we were doing some testing that we had some problems with backward
compatability on things like WordPress,UBB, and PHPBB. We had to pull
back to 4.x
If there are PHP developers out there, probably our
greatest frustration is the inability to run both PHP 5 & 4 as
modules on the same server (there are cgi workarounds, but not
very good). I recall when PHP 4 came out, we were able to run
old PHP 3 and PHP 4 as modules on the same Apache. It made it
MUCH easier to rollout, we told people to just change files extenstions
to .php4 to pickup the new version. Eventually, we dropped support
for PHP 3, by first changing the default handling for .php extensions
and requiring them to use .php3, and then removed entirely.
Don't know what was done with 5, but they can't coexist.
I'm still not sure if the was suppose to be a 'bug' or a 'feature'.
I can certainly say it has probably slowed rollout of 5 by shared
hosting providers for the reasons I just outlined.
I'd hope to hear a developers side of the story, and
can module 'coexistence' still be added?
--
John
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