Hehe, that was more reference to other hosts, not SiteHost (we love SiteHost) :D
I think that by 5.2.10 it should be time to move off of 5.1.0. Symfony 1.2 requires 5.2.4 so there's been the odd time where we've had to give a host the gentle push to upgrade. In one recent occurrence, a host who shall not be named was using a version of PHP5 old enough that it didn't contain the current daylight savings dates and so that created some major issues with times being out. --------------------------------------------------- Keri Henare [e] [email protected] [m] 021 874 552 [w] www.kerihenare.com On 1/07/2009, at 11:02 AM, Quintin Russ wrote: > > Hi All, > > Keri Henare wrote: >> We're all PHP5 at Pixel Fusion and try to convince our clients to >> make >> sure that their host is providing PHP5. >> >> I'm interested to see what the uptake of PHP5.3 will be as I've >> seen a >> lot of hosts that have upgraded to PHP5 but are still running earlier >> versions such as 5.1 or 5.2. They don't seem to keep up to date. >> > > One of the reasons for this is that you want a stable version of PHP & > don't want websites breaking when they upgrade. No-one wants that for > their customers, right? Debian for example backport fixes & you don't > have to update to get the latest features & this is great, but they're > often well behind what is considered "current". > > The PHP development team tend to bundle security fixes & new features, > which create bugs & cause all number of headaches. PHP 5.2.10 was > great, > no new features only bug fixes, but unfortunately there are not enough > of bug fix only releases & not a clear development path for > integrators > / hosting providers. > > I consider a sane development cycle practice to be something like: > Major > releases with new features: 5.x, Minor releases with bug & security > fixes only: 5.x.y > > I probably wouldn't recommend upgrading a production server to PHP 5.3 > until I had seen at least 5.3.1 & 5.3.2 come out, and longer for more > critical apps. This is because with all the new features its going to > need some time to bed down. > > As long as the PHP development team keep rolling features in with > security & bug fixes they're making it very easy for the hosting > companies to not upgrade, because instead of one major upgrade every > 30 > months they're effectively being asked to do 1 every 3 months. Or to > put > it another way: Instead of taking the time to test PHP 5.3, your > systems > guys have really only just finished running customer trials / 10% of > their sites on 5.2.9 > > This is just my opinion & not necessarily my employers etc. > > Best Regards, > > Quintin > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
