Question GoDaddy and K 3.0

I'm going to kick this horse some more.

I just got off the phone with GD and was told they do support up to 5.5 now on shared hosting.

If you check the phpinfo in joomla on a site I'm working on this is what you get for MySQL and MySQLi.

When I try to install Kunena 3.0 I get this error and it fails.
So what's going on here? GD support couldn't tell me more than 5.5 has been rolled out and whatever phpinfo reported, that's what was running.

Looks like your server still has 5.0.96 and you need to upgrade to newer one by yourself.

anphonic wrote: I'm going to kick this horse some more.

I just got off the phone with GD and was told they do support up to 5.5 now on shared hosting.
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When I try to install Kunena 3.0 I get this error and it fails.

Code:

MySQL 5.0.96-log is not supported. Minimum required version is MySQL 5.1, but it is higly recommended to use MySQL 5.5 or later.

So what's going on here? GD support couldn't tell me more than 5.5 has been rolled out and whatever phpinfo reported, that's what was running.

Maybe they are having a slow roll out. The email I got on 7/27/13 said this

The current highest version on our shared hosting environment of MySQL is 5.0. If you need a higher version of MySQL to run your website you may want to consider a Virtual Dedicated or a Dedicated server.

After posting this I went to the Godaddy site and tried to add a new database.
You now have the option of using 5.0 or 5.5 It looks a though you will have to update Joomla to 5.5 then install Kunena (Great product but I just can't remember how to spell it.)

It is probably a lot easier to find a better webhosting environment than GoDaddy. I would not recommend GoDaddy to host anything connected with Joomla. You will probably save yourself a lot of time and money if you go somewhere else. I have not met anyone yet who is satisfied with GoDaddy to host Joomla websites. GoDaddy is cheap (really cheap) but their cheapest plans are totally unsuitable for real websites built with Joomla.

That's just my opinion, of course, and that's all I have to say about it. Any search of this forum for the keyword "GoDaddy" will back me up.

Really? I've been hosting with GoDaddy since 2005 (since my pre-Joomla PostNuke days) and have been extremely happy with them up until now. This is the first time any of my issues have been host-related.

Anyway, I read this update on the GD forums posted 2 days ago:

We’re in the process of rolling out support for MySQL 5.5 to all Web Hosting plans. If you do not see 5.5 as an option when creating a new database, then it is not yet supported by your account. It will be coming soon, but I do not have an ETA I can provide.

The MySQL 5.5 servers will be separate from the MySQL 5.0 servers, so existing databases will not automatically upgrade to 5.5. You would need to make a backup of your current database, create a new MySQL 5.5 database, and then restore the backup into the new database. You would then need to update your application’s connection strings to use the new database.

It's not yet supported for me, but seeing that others now have it makes me hopeful.

GD still has not upgraded their MySql. I just got off the phone with them and got ticked off at them for not keeping pace with the rest of the tech world! What is everyone doing to handle this issue? I have spent countless hours developing a site with JomSocial which supposedly requires Kunena. I'm on Joomla 3, the latest Jom, and the latest K wont install because of the DB issue. Everything seems to be running right, I just get an occasional error message on the front end that K is not installed. It does not seem that K is required for registered users to be able to create groups on the front end.