tigertech-announce Mailing List: MySQL 5 Upgrade Saturday, August 4

[Tiger Technologies (support]

Dear Tiger Technologies Web hosting customer,

This coming Saturday (August 4th), we'll be upgrading the MySQL database
software on all our servers from version 4.1.11 to version 5.0.32 (plus
appropriate security updates). MySQL 5 adds many features that customers
have requested, and some Web site scripts now require it.

The upgrade will take place between 11:00 PM and 11:59 PM Pacific time
(the times will be slightly different for each server). We'll be making
a full backup of all databases on each server before the upgrade, and as
a result, customers should expect MySQL to be unavailable for about 15
minutes during this period. In addition, large databases may be slow for
several minutes after the upgrade, because MySQL automatically converts
databases to the new version format the first time they are accessed,
which can be time consuming.

If your site doesn't use MySQL databases, it won't be affected at all.
If it does, you almost certainly won't see any effects other than the 15
minute outage.

That said, we do recommend checking your scripts for MySQL 5
compatibility. For more details about this, please see this blog post on
our Web site:

 http://blog.tigertech.net/posts/mysql-5-upgrade/

Please let us know if you have any questions. We apologize for any
inconvenience this causes. We tend to be very conservative about major
upgrades, and we don't undertake them lightly, but this one is
definitely necessary.

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Tiger Technologies