Comment 125 for bug 1522422

@Nish Sorry for the late reply:

> 3 years *should* be sufficient time to move to PHP7.0 -- but that's just my opinion (and wouldn't PHP5 be out of support by then anyways?)

In theory yes, but in practice not. I.e. my company just launched a Drupal 7 project last week and won't except a relaunch in the next three years. We already did Drupal 8 but it's not yet stable when you also look at all the modules.

> Upstream Drupal 7 is still not passing all tests with PHP7 last I checked, so we've left it broken for now in the archive.

You don't support PHP5 anymore so you should have deleted it from the archive. All the man power goes to the Drupal 8 ecosystem right now, so it will most probably stay a PHP5 app all along.

> If I find some time this week or next, maybe I'll work on a blog post or something that will help document such a configuration, at least as an example. I will also see if I can find some way to document the performance impact.

That sounds great and could indeed be a solution using Nginx as Reverse Proxy and the stuff in LXD as an upstream for it. But it's still a complex setup and LXD/LXC got some security problems as Matthew Garrett pointed out. Anyway i am willing to help you out on that if i can and we could do an example with Drupal 7 as best practice for upgrading to xenial. Just write me a mail and i share you my contact details.