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Yes, same thing in the system we built and maintained. But believe it or not, even an upgrade from PHP 5.x.y to 5.x.y+1 can cause existing software to break. Wi
by _ak 13y ago
Yes, same thing in the system we built and maintained. But believe it or not, even an upgrade from PHP 5.x.y to 5.x.y+1 can cause existing software to break. With a million customers, some of them will hit even the most obscure bugs.
- zaptheimpaler 13y agoIs it not possible to completely isolate the two different versions? (Something like virtualenv for PHP?)
- _ak 13y agoProviding them with individual versions that they configured isn't a problem at all, even on a per-directory basis. You can do that with Apache and some configuration. The actual problem is more complex: you always have the conflict between wanting users to use the latest version (because of security issues or stuff like that) and not breaking the software they're running.
- grobmeier 13y agoActually 1and1 is running 5.2. Some web software does meanwhile requires 5.3. After all software will break even when there is no upgrade at all. Anyway, i fully agree: providing hosting is a hard business. Imaging what 1and1 needs to do for this huge server farm... wow. It's ok for a lot of low traffic sites without much functionality, but in my case I needed more at one point. Now I have the choice between 5.3 and 5.4. Thats neat.