any plans for centos 5 on vps systems?

[kc8yds]

with
http://www.swsoft.com/en/products/virtuozzo/specs/linux/
'Supported Virtual Host OS Distributions
CentOS 3.x, 4.x, 5'
and with many control panels (plesk and interworx)
now supporting version 5

and with version 5 of centos having the latest versions of php and mysql

is there any plan for centos 5 to be offered on vps systems?



on a side note to steadfast:
http://hostaffect.com/solutions/hosting.php you might want to fix the 'Domain Name' price if you wish :)
--I had sent a few friends to hostaffect saying to use it to host their sites and told them domains were only 8.95 (they got confused as to why the page said 14.95) (assuming that it is 8.95 on the hostaffect side as well)

[Karl]

We had been planning to begin offering them shortly after all the control panels supported it. Since Interworx began supporting it recently we have been testing the various configurations, etc. We should then be offering CentOS 5 within the next couple weeks.

[kc8yds]

thanks for the reply,

would the CentOS 5 be available on already running vps systems?
and would changing to it require re transferring files to the server//re setting it up from scratch?

or would it only be available for new systems?

[Kevin]

As has been demonstrated by the upgrade woes I've seen elsewhere, we would not likely offer any upgrade path to CentOS 5 from CentOS 4. In addition, as Virtuozzo is strongly based upon OS templates, and as VZ and HSPC doesn't provide a way to migrate between two different OS templates, this would be very complicated to do.

Add to that that if you have a control panel, the packages and dependencies are completely different and everything would surely break. CentOS 5 on VPSes basically slipped my mind, honestly. I appreciate the kick and I'll get to verifying all the templates are stable enough for production use this week if I have time.

I'll leave it to Karl to prepare the plans and determine when they're actually going to be available to customers, though. :-)