[Gllug] Server ISP recommended?

[Jan Kokoska]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 22:02 +0100, Sean Burlington wrote:
> "If there is a substantial outage, we will always make an announcement. 
> A minor PHP upgrade wouldn't normally be cause for alarm, except for the 
> flakiness of PHP. You can't win with it, really. We had customers 
> screaming that an upgrade needed to be performed because their sites 
> don't work, you do the upgrade, and bang! you've blown away somebody 
> else's site.
> 
> I Hate PHP... Ack."

OMG! That is very unprofessional, an ISP cannot say this to you. It
would be the last e-mail I would have read from them, too.

PHP creates a major headache for everybody involved, sysadmin folk
included, the usual approach is to only upgrade the current sub-branch
of PHP (such as 4.3) and stick to that one thing. Somebody asks for a
custom module/version upgrade, they can look for another webhost. To
break things for *existing* customers is plainly stupid.

Jan



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