upgrade OS

[magentait]

I upgraded to Plesk 8.1 without any problems, and the server runs Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9. Since Plesk 8.1 now supports SLES 10, I would like to upgrade.

Do I have to re-install Plesk, or can I just upgrade to SLES10?

 

[Artur]

why upgrade a working system? this has always caused me problems in the past.

 

[breun]

If your OS version is EOL you might want to upgrade even though the system is still working. Are you really leaving systems directly connected to the internet as long as they work?

The extreme example here is Fedora Core. Fedora Core 1-4 are EOL right now, only Fedora Core 5 and newer receive security updates for packages like Apache, PHP and other critical software that Plesk 'borrows' from the distribution you're running. Plesk 8.1.0 still supports Fedora Core 1-4, but you would be running an unpatched system really. The sad part is that probably the majority doesn't even realise they're running an unpatched system.

Fedora is probably moving too fast for Plesk. People like the latest versions when they're installing, but get bitten by the short life spans of bleeding edge distributions.

 

[Artur]

Originally posted by breun
If your OS version is EOL you might want to upgrade even though the system is still working. Are you really leaving systems directly connected to the internet as long as they work?

The extreme example here is Fedora Core. Fedora Core 1-4 are EOL right now, only Fedora Core 5 and newer receive security updates for packages like Apache, PHP and other critical software that Plesk 'borrows' from the distribution you're running. Plesk 8.1.0 still supports Fedora Core 1-4, but you would be running an unpatched system really. The sad part is that probably the majority doesn't even realise they're running an unpatched system.

Fedora is probably moving too fast for Plesk. People like the latest versions when they're installing, but get bitten by the short life spans of bleeding edge distributions.

We run RHEL and CentOS so i didn't even think about EOL, that's a good point.