On 06/06/11 17:48, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>> Currently - A lot of ISP's are 'stuck' with PHP5.2 or earlier simply
> I don't know if this is really the case. I work in this industry, and most of the small
> to mid hosting company's use cPanel or Plesk, and both include PHP 5.3. I've personally
> seen very few issues moving from older PHP 5.x versions to PHP 5.3 (over about 2,000 sites, mainly
> small business sites). And Plesk and cPanel do not appear to have perpetual licenses available
> anymore, so ISPs that use these products are basically forced to update at minimum once a year, when
> their license expires. I guess they could still technically skip upgrades, when they are prompted,
> but major updates are available to them.
>
> A real issue is RHEL (and CentOS). RHEL locks the PHP major version to whatever it is when
> they release their major version. But they also maintain their own patches, and release their own
> updates, which slightly makes up for it. So RHEL6 will have whatever PHP that was around, then,
> which I hope is PHP 5.3 (I don't have any RHEL6 servers yet). So RHEL6 will always be PHP5.3.x
> based.
>
> But the update pipeline is still a few months, so it is important that each release is a good
> release. Plus, don't worry about the Non-Updating ISP. That is less of an issue that it once
> was.
>
>
> Tom
>
Quite a few Australian hosts are on 5.2. One host that a client uses
runs off of H-Sphere (last release was on the 25th of May), where PHP
was upgraded to 5.2.17. Another host that I talked to had no ETA on when
they'd upgrade to 5.3.
From what I've heard, part of the slow uptake is because a lot of
hosting companies run FreeBSD, and they can't upgrade to 5.3 unless they
either drop support for Zend Optimizer, or swap to a different platform.
Cheers,
David