Some hosting not being XenForo 2.0 friendly would be a headache to some. As I mentioned in some of my posts, a big thing involves making the emails go thru SMTP. Anyway, lately, I've been moving my projects slowly over to XF 2 friendly VPS hosting.
Is your hosting XenForo 2.0/2.1 friendly?
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Eh, loads of hosts should have this sort of stuff.
I would actually argue that XenForo should use something a little less antiquated than PHP, but even in PHP Land, PHP 5.6 is EOL (end of life), so these requirements are actually a little too lax and leaves you open to potential security risks.
7 and it's ilk are the only versions with security updates still being released, to my knowledge.
And a VPS is usually the best case scenario all-round, as you run into all sorts of annoying little problems like having your site hacked and a phishing page hidden away somewhere, and then, getting terminated by your host randomly and unexpectedly for it.
SMTP is generally best practice, as PHP's mail() function relies on /usr/sbin/sendmail which is not only platform specific, but can be a bit slow and tends to be thrown in junk folders at major email providers.
Update: PHP 7 has been EOLed. 7.1 will be EOLed at the end of the year.
Only PHP 7.2 and 7.3 are safe.
For reference: http://php.net/supported-versions.php
Only PHP 7.2 and 7.3 are safe.
For reference: http://php.net/supported-versions.php
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I am using 5.6 php version, and when i try to change it to 7.1 or 7.2 i get memory allocation error 🙁
I am hosted with Hakwhost. Those guys pretty much have cutting edge version of PHP, Ruby, Python. However only PHP seems to be quickly updated. Ruby and Python stay on stable branch unless and ofcourse we ask specifically. But I am happy with shared hosting account of hawkhost for PHP performance.
Indeed. That's why the new 4.4 version of IPB will only support 7.2 or higher. It's pretty shocking that Xenforo will work with php 5.6.
My current host doesn’t have any problems with XF2, but I was with a web hosting company that had these issues when I first converted one of my forums to XF2. I’d say there’s a number of web hosts that had to make some updates to become compatible with XF2, especially with the email situation now.
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