My host, modwest, is still on 4.0 for shared hosting clients. They're great to work with, so I really am not looking for a change. They've just traditionally been cautious/slow about version upgrades. I'd prefer to be on 4.1 or later, but everything else is great and I'm sure they'll get there eventually. Karen ----- Original Message ---- From: Angela Byron <drupal-devel@webchick.net> To: development@drupal.org Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:01:36 AM Subject: Re: [development] Fundamental MySQL changes in Drupal 6 (six) On 12-Nov-06, at 3:38 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:

Hi,

After a little chat with Dries on #drupal :

The plan is to drop MySQL 4.0 support in Drupal 6.0 (note that free support already ended for this version of MySQL).

I did a survey of some random hosts I found mentioned in the "2006 hosting providers evaluations" thread: http://drupal.org/node/46707 and the hosting forum. - Dreamhost: 5.0 or 4.1 for older plans (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/ index.php/MySQL) - GoDaddy: 4.0.24 (http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?article_id=221) - 1and1: "4" (http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/ mysql_database/1.html) - anyone can confirm this? - NearlyFreeSpeech.net: 4.1.x (https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/) - props for not making me have to hunt around for this info! - Netfirms: 4.1 (http://www.netfirms.com/web-hosting-advantage- compare/zone/advantage) - Total Choice Hosting: 4.0.12 (http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/ help/faqs.html) - Servage.net: "v4 & v5" (http://www.servage.net/page/hosting_features/) - Media Temple: 4.1.11 (http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/) - Site5: "MySQL 4+" (http://www.site5.com/hosting/) -- could someone confirm which version they run? - AllCheapWeb.com - 4.0.24 (http://help.securepaynet.net/article.php? article_id=221&topic_id=67&prog_id=allcheapweb&) - Siteground: 4.1.21 (http://www.siteground.com/hosting_features.htm) - TextDrive: 4.1 (http://textdrive.com/hosting/shared) So of that list of 12, 3 are still using 4.0.x, and a couple more are ambiguous. Just some data that might or might not be worth factoring into this decision. -Angie