2021 Server Upgrades
Key changes:
- Debian 8.11 to 10.7 (Linux operating system)
- PHP 7.1 to 7.4 (programming language)
- MySQL 5.6 to 8.0* (database)
- HAProxy 1.7 to 2.2 (web proxy)
- TLS 1.3 SSL encryption
- A more faster and secure protocol for "https" websites.
- Databases encrypted at rest
- The database files themselves are encrypted. Anyone gaining unauthorized access to the server would need to decrypt the database in order to read any of the data.
- Better disk space allocation
- Larger drives are being used to store website files, databases and temp files.
* Versions 6 and 7 of MySQL never really went anywhere. So the jump from 5.6 to 8.0 really isn't that big.