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The point is that many WordPress users don't know what PHP is, they got some cheap web space, put WordPress up and run it for their website/blog. The hosted doe
by johannes1234321 9y ago
The point is that many WordPress users don't know what PHP is, they got some cheap web space, put WordPress up and run it for their website/blog. The hosted doesn't really care either, they want to be cheap. Sure, old PHP is out of support upstream, but RHEL and others still backport patches and there are only very few remotely exploitable bugs in the recent past of PHP, thus risk of a breach due to PHP (contrary to a non-updated WordPress/Drupal/...) is relatively small.
- fpoling 9y agoThe old PHP costs money. I know a company that realized that they could cut their operational costs significantly by upgrading PHP code from 2005 or so just because newer PHP is faster and they can get better utilization via microservices.
- johannes1234321 9y agoThat is true if you control the software running in top of it. For a cheap hoster upgrading PHP means they can put more customers on a single server, but causes support cost by customers who's apps don't work anymore and where no developer is there to fix it.