Decent Host With PHP 5.6 (Short Term)

[baldidiot]

We have some old joomla sites we're working through converting to wordpress. Due to some plug ins on the old sites it's not compatible with anything higher than PHP 5.6 so they need to stay on that in the short term.

They're currently hosted with cloudways, but they're removing support for PHP 5.6 at the end of the month so we need to find an alternative in the short term whilst we complete the conversions (probably take us a few months).

Anyone have a recommendation of a host that has support for PHP 5.6 (ideally with HardenedPHP or equivalent). It would be good if we can pay monthly as we'll only need it until we've converted the sites over.

The most active site of the set gets around 40k users a month (roughly 80k page views).


UPDATE - we've had some decent suggestions, thanks! Cloudways have also given 5.6 a stay of execution for another four months so things ended up working themselves out.

 

[cloud]

ECS on AWS... https://prototype.php.net/versions/5.6/install/docker

Just got to build an image using a dockerfile via `docker build .` with `FROM php:5.6` or whatever special flavour of PHP you need, push it to an ECR repo and run a container and point your site's DNS to it. An ALB makes this easier but it comes with a cost. Fun!

Pros: You can create and delete the instances and pay only for what you need for exactly as long as you need it.
Cons: You need to know about cloud infrastructure (terraform helps)

gl

 

[baldidiot]

Thanks, appreciate the input.

I'm more looking for more of a quick managed option for this if possible.