My Own PHP Interruption

Ton writes, in 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.The “precaution” was a notice from the maintainers of PHP, the programming language that powers this Drupal website, and much of the web, that there was going to be a critical security release of the language at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday.I was in the same boat as Ton, and this site has only sprung back to life, after more than 24 hours offline, just now.In my case I noted a mention on Hacker News of the issue just before I went to bed on Tuesday night. At the time the post had just three comments and the item was down at the bottom of the site’s first page; right now it has 656 comments.I woke up on Wednesday to news that exploits of the vulnerability were circulating, and the advice from several reputable…