PHP 7.0.0
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Glad to see this released. 🙂 Looks like there are a few interesting features, particularly declaring ints, bools, etc. in function parameters. Probably won't use anonymous classes too much, as I generally consider it to be bad programming practice.
Patience is the key, there are many factors with a new release that go into the mix before it's available mainstream, it's not a "hey it's released" let's just upgrade sort of thing for most hosting providers. There is much testing, integration, security, and more to take into account and why you won't see php7 being mainstream for a few months at least. There are many other items that work with PHP on a server, all of those items need to be tested, updated if needed, then tested some more.
As for WHM/Cpanel, and other control panels, a best guess would be 4-6 months and you should see this widely available.
As for WHM/Cpanel, and other control panels, a best guess would be 4-6 months and you should see this widely available.
That's right, although technically they could have coordinated with Apache, cPanel, and many of the other major players and gotten it rolled out at once if they had gone to that effort. Although, PHP has enough of a track record of people using old versions that just releasing the new version and letting everyone else handle integration is also a reasonable approach.
There's a big different between protocols or website software being dangerous vs being unstable. Unstable just means that it hasn't been thoroughly tested yet. It's not just related to Hostgator, many webhosts haven't made the leap yet. Do we want faster load times with PHP7? Sure. But not at the risk at PHP7 crashing because it hasn't been thoroughly tested by your webhost.
I would be pissed if my webhost updated to PHP7 just to have it crash a few weeks later. I would not be happy at all. If you're running PHP7, then you're simply gambling with the safety of your site. Webhosts are simply doing their best at vetting new software and new protocols before they update their servers with that. This simply isn't confined to Hostgator.
Keep in mind that PHP7 wasn't released until December 5th, this was only a week ago. Webhosts are going to continue to test the new version until they are sure that it's stable to run on their servers. I can't tell you how many times a new version of PHP has severely impacted my website. But, it's going to take time for webhosts to adapt their servers to a stable version. If you were running it before December 5th, then you weren't running a stable version.It's the same reason why IPS doesn't recommend upgrading IPSCS until the final stable version has been released. It's why you never upgrade your community to beta versions or RC versions and why IPS won't offer support for non-final versions.
I would be pissed if my webhost updated to PHP7 just to have it crash a few weeks later. I would not be happy at all. If you're running PHP7, then you're simply gambling with the safety of your site. Webhosts are simply doing their best at vetting new software and new protocols before they update their servers with that. This simply isn't confined to Hostgator.
Keep in mind that PHP7 wasn't released until December 5th, this was only a week ago. Webhosts are going to continue to test the new version until they are sure that it's stable to run on their servers. I can't tell you how many times a new version of PHP has severely impacted my website. But, it's going to take time for webhosts to adapt their servers to a stable version. If you were running it before December 5th, then you weren't running a stable version.It's the same reason why IPS doesn't recommend upgrading IPSCS until the final stable version has been released. It's why you never upgrade your community to beta versions or RC versions and why IPS won't offer support for non-final versions.
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