Positive Fusion

Routine updates to Cpanel and related packages such as Perl & Imap email were processed this evening. There was no downtime and we don’t expect there to be any issues arising from these updates. If something has suddenly quit working properly please let us know.

PHP5 is now available on the webserver to be optionally enabled by the end-user.

PHP4 will remain the default PHP until its End Of Life this December. We will then switch to PHP5 full-time as the default. Please use this time to confirm that all of your PHP scripts are compatible with PHP5. This likely will not be an issue, but we feel it is best to provide this interim period where both versions are available. We will likely offer PHP4 as a secondary PHP for some time after the switch in the same manner that we’re offering PHP5 now.

Again, please use the rest of this year to ensure compatibility of PHP5 with user-installed software by testing PHP5 wherever necessary.

PHP5 will be the processor for files with the extension .php5 automatically. To enable PHP5 for processing of .php files you only need add a single line to your .htaccess.

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

PHP5, as mentioned, processes through the CGI interface, versus being an Apache module, it may be slightly slower as a result, but otherwise the configurations are identical.

It looks like we stretched our luck being happy about 100% uptime for July, as we’ve just now on the 2nd day of August, suffered from a bought of 10 minutes downtime.

At this time we are unsure of the cause, but will be investigating to determine why suddenly things went awry.

We’re pleased to report 100% uptime for the month of July!

Our server monitoring agent did not detect a single period of downtime during the entire month of July. The server modifications implemented in late June have shown to be extremely effective in protecting the server against attack.