[General] All things quiet

It has been a relatively quiet 2 months at AMS. We have been working on some of the backend systems, testing some new systems, and making plans for new offering.

We rolled out updated versions of cPanel last month. This update went smoothly and allowed us to test some new updating procedures which proved to be much more efficient. The cPanel updates are done to insure server security and to also bring you new features.

We have also been working on updating Apache on all of our servers. We are still in the process of completing this task, but we only have a handful of servers left to upgrade. All of our servers are now running Apache 2.2, it is just a matter of upgrading the servers to the latest version of Apache 2.2.

With mentioning Apache, I should also mention that the PHP designers are readying PHP 5.3 to be released this fall. Currently all of our servers are running PHP 5.2.6, the latest version of the PHP 5.2 release. We will be updating our servers to PHP 5.3 once it is released and goes through a testing period. For more information on PHP 5.3 see the PHP website.

With that being said about PHP, we do still have a few accounts that are running PHP 4. PHP 4 is losing support from the PHP designers tomorrow (August 8, 2008). I will be running through the servers in the next few weeks to find out which accounts are still running PHP 4, and what adjustments they have made to their scripts in order to get them ready for PHP 5. If you have not already done so, you need to be looking into leaving PHP 4 and moving to PHP 5. I will not be able to support PHP 4 indefinitely and soon you will have to move off of PHP 4 and onto PHP 5. Again this only affects a small percentage of our accounts that have been set up specifically to run on PHP 4. If you have made no such request to our support team, then your account is running on PHP 5 and is not affected by this.

Most of the tasks that have been completed lately have only affected the backend of the servers. Server optimization and more efficient models. I wanted to update everyone on what we have been doing to provide you a better webhosting experience.

Scott