dozyncosy

I'm mostly concerned as to what the upgrade path will be for MySQL, but yeah, might be worth me sending them a ticket of sorts.

Would be nice to finally kill those old versions off the servers for good. Even if security backports exist due to Byet's servers being on CentOS, most newer software has dropped priority support for ~7.2 by now, it seems to me (7.1 is pretty much unsupported now and anything below is officially EOL since the start of the year). The default is 7.3 anyway here as far as I can tell, even if in certain parts of the panel it still says 7.0.

In regards to MySQL/MariaDB this is purely out of the interest of the FOSS community and the fact said projects have diversed somewhat with MariaDB making the bigger strides and having the more widespread support from software (and not locking features out of the freely available version like Oracle did).

Any thoughts? Not expecting it overnight but would be a neat thing. MariaDB would probably be easier to drop in place than MySQL given we're on MySQL 5.6 here