This is just insane.. yet I completely believe you..
The question is why did he need that specific php version? Was there something that required it and if so could that be isolated?
That's what he figured to install, probably...
Been there, done that, have scars.
Re:Is the web getting slower?
by RandoHolmes on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:49AM
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His explanation is that's what google cloud defaulted too, although I have a really hard time believing that.
I'm more inclined to believe he googled and blindly followed an old guide with an old ppa than I am to believe that google cloud by default installed an EOL PHP server.
I'm pretty sure he was a node guy who found himself in the PHP world.
I once saw a website that took a full minute to load, and it was literally a page with images, text overflowing around it, and then some download links. But the way it was built... my god, the way it was built.
That company brought in a new "CTO", and his solution was to dump the entire thing in google cloud. I shit you not, this CTO initially installed an EOL version of PHP, and when errors started happening, he started submitting PR's to revert the PHP code to be compatible with the EOL version of PHP.
Dumpster Fire.