Reminder: This is going to happen right now. On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! Starting April 29 2015, any new lighttpd webservices started will > default to Ubuntu trusty instead of ubuntu precise as is the case now. Note > that none of the current webservices will be migrated by us - if you are > running on precise now, it will continue running there until you migrate it > yourself. Just new invocations of 'webservice start' or 'webservice restart' > (without explicitly setting the --release parameter) is what will be > changed. == What are the marjor differences? == 1. PHP 5.5 instead of PHP > 5.3. This gives you access to a lot more features and better performance. If > your code depends on bugs in PHP 5.3 to work properly, it might break when > migrated. 2. Newer versions of packages in general. Newer is better, right? > :) 3. Less breakages due to NFS. Trusty is in general better at being a nice > NFS client than precise is, and needs a lot fewer restarts in general :) == > Does this mean I am now forced to use trusty even if I don't want to? == > Nope. If you want to keep using precise for new webservices / restarts, you > can just use webservice --release precise <start|restart> instead. We do > suggest you migrate, however - we're hoping to remove as many precise > instances as possible over time, so this would be a good time to migrate. We > offer plenty of support :) == So I want to migrate! How do I test? == Quite > simple! Use: webservice --release trusty restart This will move your > webservice to trusty (and newer version of PHP / whatnot). And if everything > is ok, you can leave it as is :) If not you can move it back with: > webservice --release precise restart And it'll be back on precise :) > == Will you help me move my tool over to trusty? == > > Sure! Just ask :) > == I'm running a uwsgi-python / tomcat / nodejs tool. Should I care? == > Nope. Those are already running trusty == I'm running my bot on precise, not > webservice. Will this affect me in any way? == Nope, although I would > encourage you to migrate too :)
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