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I’ve been gone for a LONG time, with nearly a year in the hospital. I’ve had a droplet running since 2017, which was being updated regularly.
The only thing left on it now is a forum. I’m using XenForo. I decided to upgrade to the latest version, but I’m stuck now.
The latest build of Xen requires PHP 8.x. I’m still running 7.x, so I poked through the DO Marketplace today, and I don’t see a single control panel-based droplet that comes with PHP 8x
Am I missing something? I’d run an upgrade on the existing server, but it’s been running standalone for over a year now, and when I looked, my rotating maintenance crons haven’t been running, so it has not rebooted for 483 days.
I don’t want to touch it until I have a backup in case it implodes, but I’m unsure what the best approach is.
Should I spin up a new droplet using one of my backups or snapshot and try to upgrade that to 8x? I’m worried this isn’t going to be a straight-line upgrade, and it’s going to have issues, but I’m even more concerned about having a server that has a buttload of service updates needing done that hasn’t been rebooted in so long.
Suggestions?
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