We’re ready for WordPress 3.2

The WordPress folks recently announced that next year’s planned WordPress 3.2 will require at least PHP version 5.2 and MySQL database version 5.0.15. If you use WordPress, you might be wondering if this will be a problem.

Well, “Good news, everyone!” If you use Tiger Technologies to host your WordPress blog, you’re all set: we already use later versions of PHP and MySQL than that.

WordPress also now provides a “health check” plugin that shows you whether your hosting company is ready. If you run it on one of our servers, you’ll see:

Excellent: Your server is running PHP version 5.2.6-1+lenny9aaa+tigertech1 and MySQL version 5.0.51 which will be great for WordPress 3.2 onward.

(By the way, our versions of PHP and MySQL also include security updates from later versions.)

2 Comments

  1. hey, how about Drupal 7? I tried the dev version of Drupal 7 and it seems to have some missing, if i’m not wrong, something with php-gd and ‘pecl uploadprogress’

  2. It looks like Drupal 7 is still “alpha” development software, meaning it still has many known bugs. Any problems with it are most likely unrelated to our servers.

    You should use a stable version of Drupal 6 until Drupal 7 is properly released (at which time we’d expect it to work, and we could help if it didn’t).