Thread:Project:Support desk/Problem with older version of MediaWiki

We received notification from our host that our MediaWiki PHP script was "hanging and using a lot of server resources". As a result we lost our hosting for a few days until we were finally allowed to bring it up again to investigate the issue. I'm wondering if the version we are using is contributing to these problems?

Details to assist: Site: http://www.woldiangames.com/Woldipedia/index.php/Main_Page MediaWiki: 1.6.8 (patched to enable page access restriction) PHP: 4.4.9 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log

Anyone had experience upgrading from such an old version? I'm assuming applying the updates would only affect the scripting and not the wiki content.

Appreciate any help people might have to offer. Please feel free to email me any questions/thoughts/suggestions (yt_1977@hotmail.com) though I will check back here regularly.

Thanks

Rob