Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Dr. Larry Ozeran (loze...@clinicalinformatics.com): > Thanks Rick. > > This is why I have such great respect for the members of this list. > You have such valuable experiences that you are willing to share. I > regret that I have had the experience of server issues occurring at > bad

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-03 Thread Bill Broadley
Somehow with a painfully thin straw of ssh bandwidth and only one hour of high-latency, low-reliability Internet access each evening, I was able to kludge together a lockout of the kiddies within a couple of days and before they were able to compile an exploit kit. When I reached Sydney, one

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-02 Thread Dr. Larry Ozeran
Thanks Rick. This is why I have such great respect for the members of this list. You have such valuable experiences that you are willing to share. I regret that I have had the experience of server issues occurring at bad times (right after talking about our product at a trade event), but thus

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-02 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Dr. Larry Ozeran (loze...@clinicalinformatics.com): > Rick, thanks again for your insights. You are most welcome. > You are, of course, correct that we would not redesign our software > without a significant and deep assessment of benefits and costs > (money, time, resources, etc.).

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-02 Thread Dr. Larry Ozeran
Thanks Alex. I have heard about Docker but no one on our team has experience with it. I will look into it. Dr. Larry Ozeran President, Clinical Informatics, Inc. (530) 671-9244 On 6/2/2016 07:35, Alex Mandel wrote: This might be a a good use case for a Docker container, which is essentially

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-02 Thread Dr. Larry Ozeran
Rick, thanks again for your insights. You are, of course, correct that we would not redesign our software without a significant and deep assessment of benefits and costs (money, time, resources, etc.). Most of the PHP, MySQL, and related code has been developed in house. I probably coded

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-02 Thread Alex Mandel
This might be a a good use case for a Docker container, which is essentially all the components you need but not messing with your system libraries and dependencies. If you're open to other options, python+ django/pyramid/ or flask, + postgres/,mysql, sqlite. Or Ruby + Rails + Database. Those

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-02 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Dr. Larry Ozeran (loze...@clinicalinformatics.com): > Since we are serving data that can change every few minutes, we > can't move to static pages. Since we are providing that data to > users from multiple originating sources, we pretty much have to be > internet-facing. We have put

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-02 Thread Dr. Larry Ozeran
Thanks Rick. Good information is always appreciated. Since we are serving data that can change every few minutes, we can't move to static pages. Since we are providing that data to users from multiple originating sources, we pretty much have to be internet-facing. We have put security

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-02 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bill Broadley (b...@broadley.org): > >Does anyone know any downsides to using the webtatic PHP packages on > >CentOS 6? > > I've seen many machines with ugly configurations related to cpanel, > custom php installs (sometimes more than one), and fragile very hard > to reproduce apache

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-01 Thread Dr. Larry Ozeran
Thanks Bill. That's helpful. It is a physical server. You have given me several things to consider. Dr. Larry Ozeran President, Clinical Informatics, Inc. (530) 671-9244 On 6/1/2016 21:51, Bill Broadley wrote: On 05/18/2016 08:58 PM, Dr. Larry Ozeran wrote: I am Googled out (repeatedly

Re: [vox-tech] Risks of upgrading past CentOS 6 supported PHP 5.4?

2016-06-01 Thread Bill Broadley
On 05/18/2016 08:58 PM, Dr. Larry Ozeran wrote: I am Googled out (repeatedly finding the same sites) and the impressive expertise on this list gives me high hopes that someone here has an answer or a reference. I have found many sites talking about how to upgrade from PHP 5.4 (which appears to