1&1 Blog: News and Views

Got the email below from 1and1.


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Your Hosting Platform Scheduled for Upgrade


We are pleased to inform you that 1&1 is performing a comprehensive upgrade
of its Linux hosting platform as a continuous effort to provide you, our valued
customers, with a robust hosting infrastructure. To offer you even more superior
security and performance, we will be upgrading to Debian/Linux 4.0
(code name Etch), a highly stable version of Linux.

What's more, the platform upgrade, which is handled by our seasoned in-house
developers, ensures that your applications continue to run trouble-free, while
achieving high performance. You benefit from our proven and practical approach.


Please be aware that the migration of your hosting platform of the above contract to
the new environment will be performed early March 12, 2008 between 12 am EST and 6 am
EST. At some point during this period, your website/server will be temporarily unavailable for approx. 15 minutes.

Enhancements with the Upgrade
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Following the platform upgrade, newer versions of supported scripting and
programming languages will be made available – Perl, Python and Ruby. Your old
scripts shall continue to run properly as they are downward and upward
compatible. However, you will be able to use the new functionalities available
in the latest versions of the programming and scripting languages. Click on the
scripting languages for more information about the new functionalities.

* Perl Version 5.8.8  (http://perldoc.perl.org/perl588delta.html)
* Python Version 2.4.4 (http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.4/whatsnew/contents.html)
* Python Version 2.5  (http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html)
* Ruby Version 1.8.5  (http://eigenclass.org/hiki/ruby+1.8.5+changelog)

Python is available in both versions 2.4.4 and 2.5 because Debian requires some
features of Python 2.4. If you have the web development scripts PHP4 or PHP5,
these scripts will continue to function without any tweaking or configuration
required after the upgrade. Furthermore, MySQL Database 4 and 5 will also
continue to run, needing no actions on your part.


Sincerely,
Your 1&1 Internet Team
1and1.com