By nihonsei on

People who are running their website (built with Drupal 5 or Drupal 6) on shared hosting services, may face a lot of problem to upgrade to Drupal 7. Drupal 7 will only support MySQL 5.0.15 or higher.

I could not install Drupal 7.0 Alpha version for a trial as host server does not meet the required specification. In hosting world, shared hosting services are not upgrading their server’s configuration frequently.

I can not use Drupal 7.0 until I change my host to run a small website in future. It is not easy to change a host, once you paid one year or two years subscription fee in advance.
I will continue with Drupal 6.0 until I change my host.

What is the future of Drupal 6.0 and its modules? Is it fine to run a small live website built with Drupal 6.0 for next two years?

Nihonsei

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tomaja’s picture

tomaja commented

safe to use Drupal 6.x in the next few years, 2 at least. For example, Drupal 5.0 is released 3 years ago, and there are still a lot of sites that use it and you still have regural and official security updates for it. Also, most of main Drupal 3rd party modules are still available for 5.x (http://drupal.org/project/modules)

Concerning hosting companies, everyone should carefully choose the right one. Price is just one parameter for me, and it is not the key one. For example, I have been able to install Drupal 7a1 without problems, and I`m testing it for a while. It uses (one of mine shared accounts):

PHP4 (more info) 4.4.9 (obsolete)
PHP5 (more info) 5.2.12 (default)
PERL (more info) 5.8.8
Ruby 1.8.7
Python 2.4.4
MySQL 4 4.0.27
MySQL 5 5.0.82
ImageMagick
NetPBM
Zend Optimizer 3.3.9
Sendmail

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dman’s picture

dman commented

See here - page 1.

.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

sp_key’s picture

sp_key commented

Hi Nihonsei,

As far as I understand there are many people still running Drupal 4 & 5 so I'm personally confident Drupal 6 will still be fine for at least a couple of years if not more.

By the way, just because you'll be able to upgrade to Drupal 7, doesn't mean that you should. Drupal 7 might not support several of your current modules.

nihonsei’s picture

nihonsei commented

Thanks a lot. Now I am more confident with Drupal 6.

dnewkerk’s picture

dnewkerk commented

Just to clarify for anyone who reads this... any sites running Drupal 4 are "not" supported at this point, either with core security updates or modules (if a site is still running Drupal 4, they are in significant danger of being hacked). Only the current and 1 previous version are actively supported (so right now that is Drupal 5 and 6). When Drupal 7 is officially released, that will become Drupal 6 and 7 that will be the only ones supported.

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sp_key commented

David,

Thanks for the clarification.