PHP 5.1 End of Support
PHP 5.1 was made end of life back in 2006/2007; we have continued to support it for legacy applications.
PHP 5.1 will be removed from all servers on 6th February 2012. At that point websites still using PHP 5.1 will be automatically switched to PHP 5.2.
Customers have until 6th February to make sure their applications are compatible with PHP 5.2
Unfortunately the Helm control panel doesn't label the PHP versions correctly
Version 4 is actually 5.2
Version 5 is actually 5.3
Customers can no longer enable PHP 5.1 within the control panel; if you need PHP 5.1 enabling you will need to raise a support ticket by emailing support@dhosting.co.uk.
As PHP 5.2 was made end of life back in 2010 we would strongly advise moving to PHP 5.3 rather than 5.2. We intend to remove PHP 5.2 from service during summer 2012.
Special note for CubeCart v4 customers
Zend Optimizer doesn't support PHP 5.2.17 which is used by CubeCart to encode their PHP files to stop owners from bypassing license checks. CubeCart v4 customers need to enable IonCube encoder support within their shop configuration file. Any customer requiring assistance with this can raise a ticket by emailing support@dhosting.co.uk. CubeCart v5 is not affected as it uses PHP 5.3 which has Zend Guard support.
MySQL 4.1 End of Support
MySQL 4.1 was made end of life back in 2009 as with PHP 5.1 we have continued to support it for legacy applications.
On 13th February 2012 we will be removing the MySQL 4.1 server from our platform.
Customers need to move their MySQL 4.1 databases to our MySQL 5 server. This can be done by using the export and import facilities within phpMyAdmin available at http://phpmyadmin.gbdns.net.
Please note the current MySQL 4 server address is mysql.gbdns.net:3307
The MySQL 5 server address is mysql.gbdns.net
Customers who need assistance with moving their databases can raise a ticket by emailing support@dhosting.co.uk.
We do request all customers check within the control panel to make sure they don't have any old MySQL 4.1 databases they have forgotten about. To make the process easier we do request you delete any un-used databases so we can see exactly who hasn't moved their databases to MySQL 5.
Sunday, November 20, 2011 12:18 PM