laurin1 Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 5.4 has been out for a while and 5.5 is not too far from being released. What are the plans for making these available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Dick Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Hi laurin, We would love to insure our servers are running the latest versions of services like PHP, unfortunately, the reality of that is we have always done what we can to insure the largest amount of our client base is always supported. The truth is that we could flip a couple options and have any of servers up and running on the latest version within minutes, however, that would result in an unacceptable amount of clients having sites that no longer work. We have made large changes in the past, such as the move away from PHP 5.2, which caused so many issues for clients that we rolled out our own dual version setup for PHP 5.2/5.3. This type of setup is not supported on cPanel servers and you will find very few hosts that do so. When we made this last major change to all servers, we defaulted all existing sites to PHP 5.2 via .htaccess and all new sites would default to PHP 5.3. While this solution itself still resulted in issues for some users, it gave all our clients an option on what version they would run. We have since run tests when introducing new servers to see what affect running only one version or forcing a change would do, and we were not happy with the results. Having said that, back in August of 2012, we received two requests for PHP 5.4 from clients who happened to be on the same server. One of those requests came from you in the way of a forum post made by you. At that time that server was rolled out to new setup running 3 versions of PHP and a notice was sent to those requesting the change. I personally sent the following notice to you about this via the forums PM system on how to make use of the separate versions. Sent 03 August 2012 - 01:16 AM Hi, We already offer 5.2 and 5.3, and we have now rolled out 5.4, per you request, to the server your reseller is hosted on. Since we are still testing this with other changes that are planned, it is only on the one server, which is why I am sending this private message. We will most likely officially roll it out next week.If you want to test a version other than 5.3, please .. ....... ....... If you find any issues with the new PHP 5.4 please open a ticket to our help desk and reference "PHP 5.4 Testing".Thanks for your patience. This testing setup for PHP 5.4 is still available on your server if you want to use it. We did our testing on this server as well and were not satisfied with the PHP 5.4 setup, therefore we never officially rolled out or announced the change back in August. We have since moved on to testing on our testbed servers and have rolled out two more separate setups based on the recent changes in cPanel. Our next step will be to decide if we want to continue on with a 2 or 3 version setup. I can not provide a clear date at this time on when we will begin our next roll out but we are in the process of planning that. I am sorry if this a bit long winded, I wanted to address this to you directly as well as cover things for others that may read this. Please let me know if you have questions about this or any of our server setups and I will gladly address them. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurin1 Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 Hmm, well, it's been a while since I worked on these servers, and I could only find notes on 5.3. I'm cool with the option to switch over manually, in fact, that works best for me as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurin1 Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 Ok, I misread your post. Thanks for the change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurin1 Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 What is the handler setting for 5.4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurin1 Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 I must be losting my mind. So, you rolled 5.4 out in August? What is the handler setting for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurin1 Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 I found, it, thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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