We have been working up to great stability and performance on our servers in recent years, in order to attain a constantly superior quality of service. With stable infrastructures, regular updates and an ever growing server farm, we are now at the point where we can actually allow ourselves to be a bit in advance.
As of July 10th, all our servers allow the use of PHP 5.6. This release candidate can be used but you must be careful since it is not the final version.
Release Candidate?
In a software release cycle, the Release Candidate is the final version of the testing phase. In an open source environment, it’s an important testing step for users where they can provide feedback to the software developers.
Funio therefore offers you the possibility to easily use PHP 5.6 before everyone else (or almost everyone)! To change versions, look at this article from our knowledge base!
PHP developers have indicated that there is little to no impact on your code between versions 5.5 and 5.6, but that some incompatibilities exist and that you should consider new functionalities. More details here.
Bonus: OPcache
We have taken this opportunity to make available a new cache module (OPcache) on our hosting platform. OPcache, like any other cache module, is a way to optimize loading speeds of your website. It does so by storing precompiled scripts in shared memory, consequently eliminating the stages of reading data on disk and compiling it over and over again.
OPcache is a PHP module that appeared with PHP 5.5., but we wanted to make sure it was working well with our platform before releasing it. You can start using it right now if you use PHP 5.5, or 5.6. Here is how to make sure it’s active on your hosting plan.
