Plesk 12.1 to 12.5 in place upgrade -- is it reliable?

[gbotica]

I have been holding off upgrading both my CentOS 6.7 Plesk 12.1 servers to 12.5, mainly because I've been busy with other stuff, but also because I wanted to wait and hear how stable 12.5 (and the upgrade process) is.

My impression from having watched these forums thread the last several weeks is that there seems to be many users running into some pretty serious issues when upgrading: failures, locked out of Plesk admin, sites offline, upgrade stalled and some services now inactive .. etc etc.

Of course .. we only hear about the upgrades that went wrong .. all those painless upgrades that go off without a hitch don't make it to the forums. So, how do we 12.1 users with servers stacked with users assess the safety and reliability of upgrading to 12.5?

Is it -- generally speaking -- a safe upgrade to 12.5 from 12.1?

 

[IgorG]

Of course .. we only hear about the upgrades that went wrong .. all those painless upgrades that go off without a hitch don't make it to the forums.

You are correct. Imagine what percentage updates with the problems of the total number of updates! It is really negligible.