The server is the same info but beacuse its feed the beast now you would have to download the ftb launcher and the ultimate mod pack to log in, but this isnt a bad thing or anything at all.
I think it's just a mismatch when you try to connect with a standard Minecraft client. Then it says the server is only 1.4.7. But when you connect thru Feed The Beast, it works fine.
The server may be telling you it's out of date because it no longer runs vanilla minecraft. We made a switch to a collection of modpacks called feed the beast (which you can find at http://feed-the-beast.com/). If you would like to join us the modpack we use its ftb ultimate 1.1.2 on the launcher.
What would you think of moving on from a vanilla server to running a Feed the Beast server. A few people on the server started a FTB server of their own but it cost them $15/m to have it hosted. If our server is resetting and with all the mods people are asking for maybe you can run a FTB server instead. It runs with all…