IPS4 requirement

[EricT]

Hi,

I will ask to a service provider to update PHP 5.4 to PHP 5.6

I ran IPS requirement checker, and there are only these 3 advices : 

- You are not running a compatible version of PHP. You need PHP 5.5.0 or above
- You do not have the cURL PHP extension loaded or it is running a version less than 7.36. While this is not required, it is recommend to make calls to external API services faster. You may wish to contact your hosting provider or system administrator to ask for it to be installed
- You are running MySQL version 5.5.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1.
While this version is compatible, we recommend version 5.6.0 or above, but this is not essential. You may wish to contact your hosting provider or system administrator to ask for an upgrade if you are upgrading to IPS4

It will not more expensive for me to ask for 1, 2 or more upgrade. So I would like to know if there is something I should I ask to update/install.
- PHP 5.6 is enough for aproximatively how many time (1 month, 1 year or more ?)
- Which version of MySQL would be fine ?
- Which version of cURL PHP extension ?

Others goodies to update to have better performance / security ? 

It would be fine if IPS requirement checker tell us : minimal version and optimal version

Thank you !

 

 

 

[EricT]

IPS Support reply : 

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You would be best to go for PHP 5.6 and as high a mysql version as they will install for you. A curl version of 7.36 or above.

 

[stoo2000]

7 minutes ago, EricT said:

IPS Support reply : 

 

It's probably worth pointing out that your original question included all of this information.