| Posted by about:, 05-27-2013, 01:23 PM | | suPHP End of Life Notice: lists.marsching.com/pipermail/suphp/2013-May/002554.html
[suPHP] suPHP End of Life Notice
Sebastian Marsching sebastian at marsching.com
Wed May 22 14:29:10 CEST 2013
Dear suPHP community,
suPHP has been around for more than ten years now.
As some of you have noticed, the development activity has declined with
time, in certain over the last four years.
I started the suPHP project when I was sharing a server with some
friends and thus we wanted each user to have her individual space. As
over time servers became cheaper and cheaper, each person started to use
a server of her own. For about the last six years, I have only been
using suPHP because my server had been setup this way and there was no
immediate reason to change.
Thus, I have not been personally interested in further developing suPHP
for quite some time. In addition to that I hardly found time to take
care of suPHP in the last few years. I am still very interested and
active in the idea of open-source software, however as my interests
shifted, the projects I have been working on lately shifted as well.
If you want to get an idea about which kind of projects I am talking
about, you might want to have a look at my personal projects at
projects.marsching.org/ and my company's open-source projects at
oss.aquenos.com/.
In conclusion this has left suPHP in a state where it would be
irresponsible to suggest to users that it is being actively maintained.
For example the latest security update has been lying around for years
before actually being released.
Therefore, I officially announce that suPHP has reached its end of life
and will not be maintained by me in the future.
So does this mean that suPHP is dead? This entirely depends on you, the
community.
At some points in time during the last years, I have seen quite some
activity on the mailing-list, including people discussing bugs and new
features and writing patches for them.
As suPHP is open-source software, everyone is free to keep building on
top of it. Actually I hope that someone might be interested in
maintaining suPHP in the future.
While I will not take an active role in this process, be assured that I
will support it (e.g. by keeping this mailing-list available as long as
needed or making the existing code-base available under a different OSS
license, if this helps).
I want to thank all people who helped me with the suPHP project, be it
by reporting bugs, sharing their ideas, writing patches or answering
questions on the mailing-list. Thanks to all of you!
- Sebastian
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| Posted by jcarney1987, 05-29-2013, 03:44 PM | | Well all thought it was a great project it was honestly dead a good time ago. It also doesn't compile with apache 2.4. So in a way I'm glad its been made declared officially dead since there hasn't been an update for a long time. Now that is dead somebody is more bound to pick up the project and continue on.
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| Posted by Kailash12, 05-30-2013, 01:51 AM | | What is the best alternative for suPHP for cPanel server?
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| Posted by net, 05-30-2013, 01:56 AM | | SUPHP do work fine with Apache 2.4.
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| Posted by NetworkPanda, 05-30-2013, 02:00 AM | | We run Apache 2.4 with suPHP on some of our servers, it has compiled without problems and everything runs fine. Unless of course cPanel has done something to make them compatible each other, we haven't found any problems.
I agree that it would be nice if somebody continues the project. Although we have started switching to FastCGI on most servers, there are still some people around with servers with low RAM which cannot run FastCGI
(FastCGI needs at least 8-16 GB RAM to run properly). For example some customers with 1-4 GB RAM VPS, they can use only SuPHP or mod_ruid2.
Last edited by NetworkPanda; 05-30-2013 at 02:04 AM.
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| Posted by jcarney1987, 05-30-2013, 02:24 AM | | Hmm really? Maybe It was updated the last time I tried to compile it in. I'll have to check into that. But honestly I guess I quick research on suPHP since I was already expecting end of life and have already been looking for alternitives.
Guess I learn something new everyday.
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| Posted by moracco, 05-30-2013, 02:44 AM | | Mod_ruid2 will be alternative for SuPHP
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| Posted by PeanutHosting, 05-30-2013, 07:01 AM | | Sad but was a good journey guys, Happy to see there is a new project list.
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| Posted by Infinitnet, 05-30-2013, 07:17 AM | | It's about time I think and hopefully this will push the PHP-FPM development a bit.
FastCGI.
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| Posted by toshost, 05-30-2013, 12:57 PM | | Waiting for new project suphp miss it ..
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| Posted by Steven, 05-30-2013, 01:19 PM | | Not really..
That is a really vague statement to make. Plenty of servers run with fastcgi with 4GB just fine. Out of the box it won't work well but if you actually configure it it works great.
We have several shared hosting servers that are working better with apache + event mpm + fastcgi then they did with suphp.
It actually works much better than suphp in alot of cases. It depends on the case, but to say it absolutely needs that much ram is wrong.
Last edited by Steven; 05-30-2013 at 01:23 PM.
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| Posted by jcarney1987, 05-30-2013, 01:59 PM | | Thats probably the direction I'm heading as well. All though I would like to give mod_ruid a fair trial.
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