<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello!
Starting April 29 2015, any new lighttpd webservices started will default to Ubuntu trusty instead of ubuntu precise as is the case now. Note that none of the current webservices will be migrated by us - if you are running on precise now, it will continue running there until you migrate it yourself. Just new invocations of 'webservice start' or 'webservice restart' (without explicitly setting the --release parameter) is what will be changed.
== What are the marjor differences? ==
1. PHP 5.5 instead of PHP 5.3. This gives you access to a lot more features and better performance. If your code depends on bugs in PHP 5.3 to work properly, it might break when migrated.
2. Newer versions of packages in general. Newer is better, right? :)
3. Less breakages due to NFS. Trusty is in general better at being a nice NFS client than precise is, and needs a lot fewer restarts in general :)
== Does this mean I am now forced to use trusty even if I don't want to? ==
Nope. If you want to keep using precise for new webservices / restarts, you can just use
webservice --release precise <start|restart>
instead. We do suggest you migrate, however - we're hoping to remove as many precise instances as possible over time, so this would be a good time to migrate. We offer plenty of support :)
== So I want to migrate! How do I test? ==
Quite simple!
Use:
webservice --release trusty restart
This will move your webservice to trusty (and newer version of PHP / whatnot). And if everything is ok, you can leave it as is :) If not you can move it back with:
webservice --release precise restart
And it'll be back on precise :)
<br></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">== Will you help me move my tool over to trusty? ==</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">Sure! Just ask :)</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">
== I'm running a uwsgi-python / tomcat / nodejs tool. Should I care? ==
Nope. Those are already running trusty
== I'm running my bot on precise, not webservice. Will this affect me in any way? ==
Nope, although I would encourage you to migrate too :)
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