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 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
