[BlueOnyx:27419] Re: 5210R/5211R YUM updates (CodeIgniter update)

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

On 1/21/25 02:49, Dirk Estenfeld via Blueonyx wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> I know that I've asked this several times and your answer in the past has always been - it doesn't make sense.
> But now Blueonyx has its own PHP version and it is no longer CentOS, but Almalinux and the directory structure will probably not change again.
> Do you see the chance of an inline upgrade without reinstallation and migration from Almalinux 9 to Almalinux 10 and Blueonx 5211R to 5212R this time?

Hi Dirk!

I do not pretend to speak for Michael but will offer some limited 
insight from my perspective.

I have run the in-place upgrades on various operating systems. The 
smoothest ones tend to be Debian-based (Ubuntu has gone extremely well 
for me when I have done this.)   I have run Elevate on Enterprise Linux 
variants.  At a customer's behest, we ran Elevate to take a cPanel 
server from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8 because that was suggested by a 
pop-up within cPanel for them. It went terribly.   Based on the 
experiences that I have had, I would NEVER suggest going this route on a 
production server.

Even if it does go well, having to deal with the downtime for the 
various updates and restarts just does not seem to make a lot of 
sense.   And if something goes wrong on the transfer, you always have 
the old server to fall back on as the migration is non-destructive.   If 
something goes wrong in the in-place upgrade process, you may have an 
extended downtime while trying to recover.

Given that Easy-Migrate works as well as it does, it's probably just 
faster to spin up a new server and run the migration.   This is the 
standard practice we follow with both BlueOnyx and WHM/cPanel servers 
that we manage.

I certainly wouldn't say that it cannot be done.   I just question the 
logic of doing so.

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