Reading Time: 16 minutesAs we explored in our previous article of our MySQL Performance Series: MySQL vs. MariaDB there are very few downsides to using MariaDB over standard MySQL. Our high-availability MariaDB’s have proven itself to be a worthy successor with easily mitigated drawbacks.  As the last article in our series we will focus on upgrading to various MySQL and MariaDB version on the following servers: CentOS 6/7

• MySQL to MariaDB on CentOS 6/7 with cPanel
• MySQL to MariaDB on CentOS 7 with Plesk Onyx 17
• MySQL 5.1-5.5 to MariaDB 5.5 on CentOS 6
• MariaDB 5.5 to MariaDB 10.0 on CentOS 6

Ubuntu 14.04/16.04

• MySQL 5.1-5.5 to MariaDB 5.5 on Ubuntu 14.04
• MySQL 5.7 to MariaDB 10.2 on Ubuntu 16.04

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