A year ago I asked how do we solve a DB like Maria, and my friend James and I had a good laugh at the long list of issues.
It’s been a year.
I’ve upgraded to PHP 7.
It’s time.
What about Oracle vs Google?
Oh you heard about that? Google won a case against Oracle about GPL code in Android which I want to be really happy about, but it illustrates a major flaw in the judicial system. To whit: The player with the deepest pockets wins.
That case about Java though, not MySQL, which has been a long standing issue with the Open Source Community. The summary? Well it’s kind of like Prohibition. They can try to outlaw it, but we’re going to do our own thing. Which is where MariaDB comes in. It was a fork of MySQL, made in order to stay free and open. I strongly support open source software and so I change to MariaDB.
What Are The Issues?
There aren’t as many for MySQL 5.6 vs MariaDB 10.x as I’d thought. In looking at that, I determined it wouldn’t really impact my sites or setup. In fact, I was certain none of it would be an issue.
How to Upgrade?
I’m on WHM, so first I made a backup: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup --force
Then I went into WHM and said “Upgrade Maria!”
I picked the interactive upgrade since I wanted to see what it was doing. Step one went rather quickly and updated everything. It asked me to check my compiled software (which meant two non-WordPress sites that historically act odd when I upgrade). Once that was done, I clicked ‘next’ and was told I didn’t need to do anything else…
Now what?
I ran off to GTmetrix and checked my sites. I had two that were PHP 7 and they had no real change. I then changed another one to PHP 7 and Maria and checked it, and got bigger gains. Speed was up and everything, code wise, appeared to work as needed.
It was entirely a non-event.
