On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, lowbwtom wrote: > Is it common practice for hosting providers to update to newer versions of > PHP without warning to virtual hosting clients? And should I expect those > updates to be bug-free?
Hosting companies should definitely warn their clients, but the PHP team of course tries to making upgrading between minor version happen without any hassle. It was unfortunate that this bug crept it. > > Liquidweb recently updated to php 4.2.3 and soon after I noticed that > significant chunks of my commercial web site ceased to function. Turned out > to be due to a bug in PHP. I bet it was solved by using --disable-mbstr-enc-trans... > > Is this just something site managers have to deal with, or should I be > looking for another host? Well, if you can not trust your host to warn you when they upgrade I suggest to change hosts or atleast talk to them about this. (The most ideal way would be to get your own dedicated box and let them upgrade it when _you_ ask for it). regards, Derick -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions --------------[ if you hold a unix shell to your ear, do you hear the c? ]- -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
