PHP 5.3

SachaJ

Hi...

Just wondering when PHP 5.3 will be coming to the shared hosting Linux servers?

Thanks.

mneylon

Which of our hosting plans are you currently using?

SachaJ

Minimus

mneylon

Ok. I'll have to check with our technical team, as I'm not familiar with exact versions etc.,

I'll try and get you an answer on Monday morning

SachaJ

Cheers, thanks.

Current version on my package is 5.2.17. Just asking as a Wordpress plugin I want to use requires 5.3. Current released version is 5.3.9.

Not the end of the world if I can't use it though....

mneylon

I checked with our CTO and we currently do not have an ETA on it. As soon as we do we'll probably post on our blog etc.,

If you really need PHP 5.3 I'd recommend you look at one of our cloud servers which start at €12.99 / month ex-VAT https://cloudstore.blacknight.com/?tab=cloud-vm-fixed-starter-1716

Astart

Blacknight wrote: »

I checked with our CTO and we currently do not have an ETA on it. As soon as we do we'll probably post on our blog etc.,

If you really need PHP 5.3 I'd recommend you look at one of our cloud servers which start at €12.99 / month ex-VAT https://cloudstore.blacknight.com/?tab=cloud-vm-fixed-starter-1716

Hi, just wanted to check if anything changed in path 2 months and there are any updates on when you are planning to upgrade to 5.3

mneylon

Status has not changed.

ceejay

Any update on plans to support PHP 5.3?

collier

I think BK should be putting pressure on Parallels to include PHP5.3 or PHP5.4 as PHP5.2 is no longer supported.

Many other platforms from other hosting providers already have PHP5.3 enabled so why fall behind the competitors?

mneylon

I've checked with our technical team to find out exactly what is going on ..

On our current shared hosting platform the status is:

- Linux - unlikely to get PHP 5.3. We're going to be upgrading to a slightly different platform relatively soon which will have it, but I don't have exact timelines on that yet (it'll also have a lot of other stuff that people will really like)

- Windows - Probably end of July / beginning of August


In the meantime if you need 5.3 then one of our cloud servers is the best option

collier

Blacknight wrote: »

I've checked with our technical team to find out exactly what is going on ..

On our current shared hosting platform the status is:

- Linux - unlikely to get PHP 5.3. We're going to be upgrading to a slightly different platform relatively soon which will have it, but I don't have exact timelines on that yet (it'll also have a lot of other stuff that people will really like)

- Windows - Probably end of July / beginning of August


In the meantime if you need 5.3 then one of our cloud servers is the best option

Thank you for the reply I will hold out until the upgrade.

poziczek

good im waiting for upgrade as well

poziczek

good

liam365

Any news on PHP upgrade for shared hosting as I'm getting this message on a couple of things I have installed:

You are using an outdated PHP version
You are using PHP 5.2, a version of PHP which has been end of life since January 2011.

collier

liam365 wrote: »

Any news on PHP upgrade for shared hosting as I'm getting this message on a couple of things I have installed:

You are using an outdated PHP version
You are using PHP 5.2, a version of PHP which has been end of life since January 2011.

Getting similar messages. And a cloud package is not feasible for me at the minute due to finances.

Trojan00

liam365 wrote: »

Any news on PHP upgrade for shared hosting as I'm getting this message on a couple of things I have installed:

You are using an outdated PHP version
You are using PHP 5.2, a version of PHP which has been end of life since January 2011.

I am also getting this message on Joomla plugin. Is there any update on this?

kingdumb

Same issue here, any update on an update blacknight ?

mneylon

I've raised the issue with one of the senior guys in Parallels and am waiting on an update from him - I think he's in Asia at the moment, so haven't had a reply yet ..

skippy2

Have also posted this on the Blacknight forum but that has now been closed Obviously Blacknight dont want people to talk about this issue

Latest Extension to return error when trying to install in Joomla

"This extension is not compatible with PHP 5.2.17. You need PHP 5.3 or higher to be able to install and use this extension."

As this thread started in January and we are now in October not much action seems to have been taken on Blacknights part

Even register 365 have PHP version 5.3 and higher available

Goodshape

Blacknight wrote: »

- Linux - unlikely to get PHP 5.3. We're going to be upgrading to a slightly different platform relatively soon which will have it

A platform that's not Linux? Could you tell us what it is?

Current stable release of PHP is now 5.4.7. Being stuck way back on 5.2 is a real deal-breaker for me when it comes to using or recommending a Blacknight server.

Trojan00

Blacknight wrote: »

I've raised the issue with one of the senior guys in Parallels and am waiting on an update from him - I think he's in Asia at the moment, so haven't had a reply yet ..

Any news from your senior guy? I assume he has replied to you by now?

kingdumb

The irony here is that I am currently in the process of moving all my domains/accounts off hosting365 to blacknight as they refused to update php on their legacy package, and now blacknight are doing the same. I have stopped the move now, pending this updated, anyone recommend any other provider, I would like to support an Irish company if possible ?

A response from blacknight would be great.

DannyBoy125

Any update on Blacknight moving to PHP 5.3 or higher yet (current release is 5.4.7)?

It's long overdue at this stage and increasingly becoming a point of frustration amongst developers.

I would move to Cloud Hosting, but it would be Amazon as it's free - whereas Blacknight is still fairly pricey.

collier

DannyBoy125 wrote: »

Any update on Blacknight moving to PHP 5.3 or higher yet (current release is 5.4.7)?

It's long overdue at this stage and increasingly becoming a point of frustration amongst developers.

I would move to Cloud Hosting, but it would be Amazon as it's free - whereas Blacknight is still fairly pricey.

After talking with Tech Support. They are waiting on the vendor. BTW the free tier with Amazon is fairly limited having used it for a bit.

dunworth1

any update on when this is going to happen

can install the latest version of joomla

flamegrill

No update yet I'm afraid. We're putting Parallels under increasing pressure to support this. They are the ones holding the cards unfortunately.

By the end of January we'll have new Hosting packages on Linux which will have at least 5.3.3. But existing packages won't get this version most likely. We will have a direct migration path from old to new with some limited downtime. More info when we have it.

Paul

skippy2

"You are using an outdated PHP version
You are using PHP 5.2, a version of PHP which has been end of life since January 2011. It is insecure and lacks a lot of features introduced in newer versions. Akeeba Backup is still compatible with it and will continue working just fine. We are planning on removing support for it in the following months. You are strongly advised to upgrade PHP for reasons of security and compatibility with future versions of Akeeba Backup. All Joomla! extensions written since mid-2011 and the Joomla! CMS itself are already fully compatible with PHP 5.3."

Happy New Year to all ...

We are still waiting for Blacknight to get something happening on this
Seems crazy that in 2013 we are still waiting for this to happen
Blacknight has and will continue to lose business due to inaction on this
I now have more websites wanting to sign up and will have to look elsewhere soon

kingdumb

Ah come on the senior guy in Parallels is probably on his xmas holidays.

skippy2 wrote: »

We are still waiting for Blacknight to get something happening on this
Seems crazy that in 2013 we are still waiting for this to happen
Blacknight has and will continue to lose business due to inaction on this
I now have more websites wanting to sign up and will have to look elsewhere soon

mneylon

skippy2 wrote: »

"You are using an outdated PHP version
You are using PHP 5.2, a version of PHP which has been end of life since January 2011. It is insecure and lacks a lot of features introduced in newer versions. Akeeba Backup is still compatible with it and will continue working just fine. We are planning on removing support for it in the following months. You are strongly advised to upgrade PHP for reasons of security and compatibility with future versions of Akeeba Backup. All Joomla! extensions written since mid-2011 and the Joomla! CMS itself are already fully compatible with PHP 5.3."

Happy New Year to all ...

We are still waiting for Blacknight to get something happening on this
Seems crazy that in 2013 we are still waiting for this to happen
Blacknight has and will continue to lose business due to inaction on this
I now have more websites wanting to sign up and will have to look elsewhere soon

Paul provided an update in December which referred specifically to the end of January 2013.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=82119499&postcount=27

collier

Is this any indication that we should see this soon http://kb.parallels.com/en/114457

mneylon

collier wrote: »

Is this any indication that we should see this soon http://kb.parallels.com/en/114457

Not really - we don't use Plesk on shared.
We're currently waiting on a reply from Parallels with respect to timelines - I'd expect either myself or Paul (flamegrill) will be able to provide an update in the next couple of weeks

skippy2

For those of us using Joomla and still waiting since Jan 2012, yes its now Feb 2013, for PHP 5.3 to be made available this may be very much of interest to us all
https://www.arvixe.com/
Quite an interesting selection of feature and Prices

Trojan00

Hi

Any news on this? My subscription is due to expire soon and was wondering if I should be looking elsewhere or will this be sorted soon?

Thanks
Dara

mneylon

Trojan00 wrote: »

Hi

Any news on this? My subscription is due to expire soon and was wondering if I should be looking elsewhere or will this be sorted soon?

Thanks
Dara

Our CTO has been out of the office for the last couple of days, but we are meant to be getting the upgrade in the next few weeks - before the end of the month I believe

pizzahead77

Just had an email from the Blacknight Status email list saying that the shared linux servers are going to be upgraded to PHP 5.3.3 on Tuesday March 12

http://www.blacknightstatus.com/2013/03/announcement-php-5217-being-upgraded-to-php-533-on-tuesday-march-12.html

collier

pizzahead77 wrote: »

Just had an email from the Blacknight Status email list saying that the shared linux servers are going to be upgraded to PHP 5.3.3 on Tuesday March 12

http://www.blacknightstatus.com/2013/03/announcement-php-5217-being-upgraded-to-php-533-on-tuesday-march-12.html

This is all well and good for linux customers but what about your Windows client base... you need to use the same card with Parallels as customers are using with yourselves. (If it's not done another provider will gain the custom)

mneylon

collier wrote: »

This is all well and good for linux customers but what about your Windows client base... you need to use the same card with Parallels as customers are using with yourselves. (If it's not done another provider will gain the custom)

I'll check on the status of Windows + PHP.

mneylon

I'm awaiting a firm date from our technical team, but we'd expect to be doing the upgrade on the Windows Server cluster a few days after we've done it on the Linux one.

collier

Blacknight wrote: »

I'm awaiting a firm date from our technical team, but we'd expect to be doing the upgrade on the Windows Server cluster a few days after we've done it on the Linux one.

Cool that's great news

testicle

Blacknight wrote: »

I'm awaiting a firm date from our technical team, but we'd expect to be doing the upgrade on the Windows Server cluster a few days after we've done it on the Linux one.

That (PHP 5.3 on Windows) should have been done by Parallels as part of the POA upgrade.

skippy2

Waiting to install Joomla 3 on Blacknight and need PHP 5.3.1  what is the update on this. It seems from your announcement page it has been postponed from the 12th March

mneylon

skippy2 wrote: »

Waiting to install Joomla 3 on Blacknight and need PHP 5.3.1  what is the update on this. It seems from your announcement page it has been postponed from the 12th March

Waiting on a new upgrade date - hopefully we'll have one this week. Please keep an eye on our status site for updates

skippy2

thanks for the quick reply
What version of Joomla is on the web applications page for install on blacknight as i cannot see the version number anywhere?

mneylon

We're upgrading tomorrow - assuming nothing crazy goes wrong: http://www.blacknightstatus.com/2013/03/announcement-php-5217-being-upgraded-to-php-533-on-wednesday-march-20.html

collier

Blacknight wrote: »

We're upgrading tomorrow - assuming nothing crazy goes wrong: http://www.blacknightstatus.com/2013/03/announcement-php-5217-being-upgraded-to-php-533-on-wednesday-march-20.html

Any word on the Windows nodes?

We are currently testing the upgrade process on Windows nodes and will have more information on a timeline for upgrading all nodes shortly. I would expect it to be completed in under 2 weeks.

collier

AlanBlacknight wrote: »

We are currently testing the upgrade process on Windows nodes and will have more information on a timeline for upgrading all nodes shortly. I would expect it to be completed in under 2 weeks.

Thanks for that Alan

collier

AlanBlacknight wrote: »

We are currently testing the upgrade process on Windows nodes and will have more information on a timeline for upgrading all nodes shortly. I would expect it to be completed in under 2 weeks.

Hey Alan - have you got any more updates for us on this?

The testing generated some issues which we have been working to resolve, we have started testing again now and aim to install 5.3 next week all going well.

collier

AlanBlacknight wrote: »

The testing generated some issues which we have been working to resolve, we have started testing again now and aim to install 5.3 next week all going well.

Cool thanks for that ... Do you know which version of 5.3 we expect to see?