Upgrade from MySQL 4.1 to MySQL 5 | Article about:
The upgrade to MySQL 5 is now complete. Please let us know if you experience any issues.
Upgrade from MySQL 4.1 to MySQL 5 | Friday, September 14, 2007:
In an effort to continually improve site performance for our customers, we ll be upgrading our MySQL servers from using MySQL 4.1 to MySQL 5. MySQL 5 is better at handling the many simultaneous requests our database servers receive.
WHEN WILL MY SERVER BE UPGRADED?
We will be rolling out MySQL 5 on Monday morning, September 17. If you make use of one or more of your MySQL databases, we ll notify you of the upgrade via e-mail on Friday, September 14.
There should be approximately 15 minutes during which your databases will not be accessible--at this time, we ll be copying and upgrading the databases to run using MySQL 5.
IS THERE ANYTHING I NEED TO DO?
When your site s MySQL server is scheduled to be upgraded, if your site relies on a database, we recommend you let your visitors know that they may not be able to access all aspects of your site for a brief period of time that morning. You can also temporarily display a non-database version of your site so that visitors can see parts of your site not affected by the server upgrade.
Please note that code running on MySQL 4.1 will generally continue to run smoothly on MySQL 5; commonly used functionality performs the same, if not better, on MySQL 5 than on 4.1. For more information, visit the MySQL site.
If you find that your code is not performing as you d expect, please contact us.
We re excited to start running MySQL 5 on our servers, and we hope this change yields performance improvements for your site. We appreciate your patience as we perform this upgrade--and please, if you have any questions, let us know.
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