On Thursday afternoon (26/02/2015) there will be a PHP version upgrade on the Auckland PHP 5.3 cluster. The PHP version will be moving from 5.3.3 to 5.3.29. We are not expecting any impact to sites running on the PHP 5.3 cluster. If you notice any issues with your PHP 5.3 sites following this upgrade, please submit a support ticket.

Over the last few months our upstream providers have been rolling out a new shared platform onto CPanel servers to take them to the next level. These upgrades are meant to accommodate where the internet and websites are going, rather than where it has been. To do that, we have gone back to basics to rethink everything from the ground up. We will be introducing these changes in a new round of blog posts starting with the new Apache 2.4 upgrades which have been rolled out already. Apache 2.4 – A big step forward. While other web servers such as NGINX have captured social media’s attention, Apache still powers most of the internet as the rock solid platform we have depended on for almost 20 years. The Apache platform continues to modernize itself without sacrificing what makes it into the platform that has built so much of the internet. You can see clear examples of this in each system’s design as NGINX drops support for .htaccess configuration while Apache builds in archite