Is it possible to upgrade the version of PHP running on my server without any significant downtime?
What I want to avoid is my sites being down for minutes (or longer if something goes wrong) while I upgrade PHP. I don't mind if they're down for a few seconds.
Ideally I would like to have two versions of PHP installed on a server and just flick a switch to flip between them. That way if there are unforeseen problems with the new version I can flick the switch back again to go back to the old version.
The only way I can think of is to have two servers running different version of PHP and use DNS to choose which one users see. Is it possible with a single server?
Edit
I should have mentioned that I'm using an Ubuntu 10.04 server running Nginx and PHP-FPM/FastCGI.
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