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.
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We’re happy to announce that the monthly bandwidth allowance for all Web hosting plans has been at least doubled — at no additional cost. (Bandwidth is simply how much data your Web site sends to visitors. As your Web site gets larger or becomes more popular, bandwidth usage increases.)
The Web hosting plans have had their bandwidth increased as follows:
- Silver plan: increased from 100GB to 250GB per month
- Gold plan: increased from 200GB to 500GB per month
- Platinum plan: increased from 500GB to 1TB per month
This change is effective immediately (in fact, it’ll be applied retroactively to the start of June).
Our pricing remains the same. We’re glad to be able to help you grow your sites without extra fees!
Welcome to the Tiger Technologies blog!
Although we already have a mailing list for Important Announcements, we try to keep traffic there to a minimum. But there are lots of other things happening that we’d sometimes like to share — everything from minor software updates on our servers to useful tips from our support staff.
One of the most useful features is RSS feeds. RSS feeds let you use a feed reader to “subscribe” to all the posts on the blog, or just to particular categories. For example, if you want to see the key things we think every well-informed customer might want to know, you could subscribe to the “Blog Highlights” feed. Or, if you want to know about every last technical change we make to our server platform, the “Tech Corner” feed is for you!
By the way, we should mention that we’ll probably be making lots of changes to the blog as it evolves. We may even change the names of some of the categories, which would cause your RSS feed to stop working. If that happens, you can simply visit the blog again and re-subscribe to the new feed name.
We hope this blog is useful, and we welcome comments and feedback.
