The PHP Interruption

This site, and my other ones, and my business ones (including our NextCloud), were offline as precaution since yesterday afternoon. I was at LegoWorld in Utrecht with E and Y, when I realised what was going on, and left for home to take my stuff down. Now that PHP patches, after becoming available late yesterday afternoon, have been added to our various hosting packages, everything can be brought back online. I also updated my VPS today, after Hetzner made the patches available overnight. Going through all my online stuff did create a bit of a list of other maintenance chores, and showed some things I can prune or remove completely. That’s a win, even if unplanned and keeping me from my actual work this week. The PHP interruption has been overcome. (I’ve been using PHP for 2 decades since I sat next to Rasmus Lerdorf at the first Amsterdam BarCamp in 2005, and this blog runs on PHP since 2012. Before that I used Perl a lot, but now PHP is what I use for most of my personal homemade…