Re: [development] Fundamental MySQL changes in Drupal 6 (six)
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
Hey Angie Nice list there. Thanks for that. It is apparent that some are still on 4.0, but then again that may change by 6.0 (which would be about 6 months from now at best). So by then these hosts may have upgradad to 4.1 or even 5.
Karen Stevenson wrote:
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.
Note that Karoly's announcement was about dropping Mysql 4.0 support for Drupal _6_. We haven't released Drupal 5 yet, so my guess is that Drupal 6 won't be released untill next summer. That's plenty of time for providers to upgrade mysql after the free support stops at the end of this year. Cheers, Gerhard
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