The servers here don’t run Ubuntu. They run something like CentOS, so why would they care about Ubuntu release dates. And I mean no disrespect to iFastNet, but they are not the first people to grab the newest software/OSes.
HOWEVER, I do suspect that they will upgrade before November 28 (2022), when php 7.4 stops receiving security updates. Whether they will choose php 8 or 8.1 is beyond me.
Primarily AlmaLinux nowadays. It’s similar to CentOS (or what it used to be), and it’s backed by the same company that builds CloudLinux, so you know it’s great for web hosting.
But it’s all irrelevant, because iFastNet builds their own versions of PHP for free hosting, so it really doesn’t matter which PHP version is provided by which operating system.
Google how to build php from source, we include many custom patches to that tree pre compiling on free hosting to make if freindly to free hosting! , it is not a yum / apt install
I’m waiting for this too. I test my pHp scripts in xampp and they work fine with MySQL database but here it just doesn’t know what to do, especially with my website and it’s not sending user data to my database. I am sad.