Plesk 8

[lazyskillz]

When is PowerVPS going to update the VPS servers with Plesk 8?

[Robert]

You can update yourself now. Plesk has changed the system users now can update this themselves.

If your updater button is still disabled, run the following command from SSH while logged in as root:

mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`
use psa;
UPDATE misc SET val='false' WHERE param='disable_updater';
exit

That will enable the updater so you can attempt to upgrade Plesk.

Now... that being said, there are a few things I want to suggest/note:

a) Make a full backup of your VPS before you attempt this upgrade. As with any major system change, there is a chance for things to break. These may not be able to be fixed quickly if we have to get SWSoft invovled and things have to go to their development team.
b) Most ANY new product (be it CPanel, Plesk, Windows, etc) will have issues within the first few weeks of release. My PERSONAL suggestion is to wait 2-3 weeks before rushing to upgrade. Let others sweat out any bugs that may happen during the upgrade and then once they are fixed upgrade yourself.
c) If Plesk upgrade fails, try running the following command via SSH while logged in as root and then restart the upgrade procedure: killall -9 safe_mysqld mysqld
d) Have you made that backup? I'm not kidding on this. :) If something goes wrong, it's not always possible for support to just fix any issues that pop up. One example was mail breaking following the release of Plesk 7.5. It was something that took quite a bit of time to resolve. If you don't make a backup and something goes majorally wrong, I'm not very sympathetic to someone who comes to me saying how absolutely urgent this is for them to be fixed. Make your backup first. Then if something goes MAJORALLY wrong, we can roll you back to the earlier version and try to do the upgrade for you, or escallate it to SWSoft for investigation.

I've actually installed a totally CLEAN new dedicated Plesk box last night and on a clean install, it went very nice. There were no problems (other than the box having sellinux on by default and me having to disable that in order to do the install). But this was on a CLEAN build. Generally when issues happen... it's on UPGRADES because not everything is always 100% like the updater is expecting. If it runs into a contention it can't handle, it can have rather bad results.

Plesk 8 looks very nice. For the first time, I've seen mySQL 4.1 (4.x for that matter) installed by default. I was suprised to see it only install PHP 4.3.9 by default though.

[Robert]

Also... Plesk 8 is currently only available for LINUX servers. Windows servers still have 7.5 as the latest release.

[charles]

For any version of Plesk, I highly recommend waiting until we have templates available and allow us to do the migration for you. If you don't you will unnecessarily use up your disk space and your VPS will use more of your memory allocation than one upgraded via templates.

charles

[aJx]

anything change?

[charles]

I am not sure I understand the question. In general you should ask us to upgrade plesk for you via templates instead of attempting this yourself.

charles