Mmm. Worth noting that PHP as a language has been moving pretty fast lately. The 7.x series is something like 2-3 times faster than 5.6 in most benchmarks, plus

Mmm. Worth noting that PHP as a language has been moving pretty fast lately. The 7.x series is something like 2-3 times faster than 5.6 in most benchmarks, plus a lot of developer friendly features have landed, and some useful security features, which has led to a lot of people cutting support for older versions. I understand the logic behind running Debian until the end of extended LTS, but it's going to have a number of drawbacks. Not being able to use a supported version of Laravel is probably not the biggest one either. It's not a tradeoff that would be viable for my team, at any rate.