2021 Server Upgrades


Key changes:

  1. Debian 8.11 to 10.7 (Linux operating system)
  2. PHP 7.1 to 7.4 (programming language)
  3. MySQL 5.6 to 8.0* (database)
  4. HAProxy 1.7 to 2.2 (web proxy)
  5. TLS 1.3 SSL encryption
    • A more faster and secure protocol for "https" websites.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.