I have Lost Client After Upgrading to Drupal 5.8
Hello Drupal Developers I am with heavy heart want to tell you all people that I have lost client after upgrading his site from 5.2 to 5.8.
I have done all the things which have been written in the Update.txt in drupal 5.8 module and after that I have tested the site on development and after taking permission from the client I have upgraded the live site to the 5.8 version, at that time it was working well but after some hours the site went down saying that
"MySQL: Too many connections"
and after that I have tried hard to solve this problem but all in vain, But When I put the site back to the older version the site running was well even on 5.7 version also.
Ultimatly Client has refuse to work with me and told me I am the culprit who has done damage to the site.
I feeling bad about the new version drupal has introduces it has major problem till now.
So If anybody who is listening me please dont do upgrade to 5.8 it is still not stable yet try to upgrade the site to 5.7.
Suggestion are Welcome.
Thanks.
Hosting
It appears that the hosting is the culprit (limiting connections badly). Or update went wrong.
No way to tell now.
- Alexei Rayu.
Drupal Related Services | SiteHound Drupal Free Distro
Perform upgrade on a cloned site first
Sorry to hear that. My suggestion is that for high traffic sites and/or important clients, that one makes a "clone" of the current site on your own development server. Perform the upgrade on the "clone". If tested well, then migrate "changed files" from your "clone" site to "production" site.
I try to avoid doing an upgrade directly on a live production site (especially when site is highly customized).
YouDesignICode.com
Perform upgrade on a cloned site first
Hello artcoder
I have upgraded the site in the same way as you told me but the problem was the on development it was working good till the time I have push it to the live site where the all traffic is coming and suddenly The site went down (Could not connect to server)and it happened almost day 2 from the day site went down, some time it comes and some time it went down. I have contacted the hosting service provider also but they say it is the problem of mysql is not configured well it is not there fault even though they are going through they are doing some maintainance due to some technical fault in the server.
But I am wondering If Drupal 5.8 is not stable than why the DRUPAL DEVELOPER introduce it by saying immediately upgrade your site to 5.x to 5.8, now to 5.9. Don't they say that it is in development stage is not tested fully as they are tell with all the modules.
Now I disavow that
I work for a number of companies and people running Drupal. Many if not all sites have been upgraded to Drupal 5.8, or SiteHound, which is built upon 5.8. The feedback has been only positive. I would really either look for 3rd party code that causes the problem, or the it's the hosting provider.
- Alexei Rayu.
Drupal Related Services | SiteHound Drupal Free Distro
Bad advice
Both 5.8 and 5.9 were security releases so it is important that people upgrade their sites. Whatever your mysql issues were, they weren't the result of 5.8 being "unstable". Advising people not to upgrade is irresponsible as that is advising them to remain on an insecure version.
Michelle
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Re: Bad advice
If you were in my situation than definitely you will tell people just do proper test before upgrading from 5.x to 5.8 or 5.9. But by telling not to upgrade to 5.8 or 5.9 my intention was not to criticize the drupal community but to warn developers who are also going to upgrade to 5.8 or 5.9 there client site so they will not lose there client more than client there prestige.
As far as I know there is no video tutorial available for upgrading site from
4.x to 4.x
4.x to 5.x
5.x to 5.x
5.x to 6.x
As if you are really want to help drupal developers then kindly make some videos for upgrading sites.I know there is upgrade.txt file available in drupal folder for every version and also there are articles available for upgrading site but none of the these two given any kind of authenticity that it will do no harm to site. So better is give some live examples so that drupal community know how to upgrade site with things keep in mind
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Excuse me but you did not just advise people to test first, which is the normal advice that any experienced dev will give you. You said:
Since 5.7 is an insecure version, and both 5.8 and 5.9 are perfectly stable (tho 5.8 is insecure as well), I stand by my charge that that is irresponsible advice.
As to making videos, that's not my thing. When you get it sorted out, feel free to make some and contribute them.
Michelle
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