1&1 updating their servers – anyone know if this will effect wordpress/eStore

I always get a little worried when your hosting company tell you they are moving your site onto a new “better” server…

Received this from 1&1 – do you think it will effect things in any way as far as WordPress and eStore are concerned?

We would like to inform you of an upcoming migration of the 1&1 Web

servers:

In the course of our system maintenance, your 1&1 hosting package will

be migrated to an updated operating environment in the period from 24

October to 28 October 2011 in order to continue to provide you with

the best and most secure environment for your hosting package.

This does not require any preparation or adjustments on your part,

the migration is fully automated. However, you hosting package will

not be available between 8:00 AM and 06:00 PM for about 5-10 minutes.

Subsequently, all applications will be available as usual.

For technical reasons, we cannot specify the exact migration date.

What will improve?

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Apart from better performance and more security, the migration to a

Linux operating environment (based on Debian Squeeze/6.0) specifically

adapted to the needs of 1&1 and its customers also includes the upgrade

of the following components:

Apache 2.2

http://apache.org/

Please note that the migration has resulted in a number of changes

in the runtime configuration. For example, the instruction

‘IndexOptions FancyIndex’ now takes you to the function that used to

be available under the obsolete ‘FancyIndex On’.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/upgrading.html

If you are using very old scripts or software, please note that after

a redirect by Apache, certain internal variables, such as ‘REMOTE_USER’,

will henceforth only be available as ‘REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER’.

Python 2.6

http://www.python.org

http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.7/whatsnew/2.6.html

Perl 5.10.1

http://perldoc.perl.org/

http://perldoc.perl.org/5.10.1/index.html

These upgrades do not require any action on your part.

After the migration, these components will automatically be available

to you.

Please feel free to contact our support team if anything does not work

as usual after the migration or if you have further questions.

Many thanks for any help,

Regards

Jonathan