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I’m looking at some things in my cPanel and noticed that my server is using PHP 5.4. Should I change it to PHP 7.1? Is it a good idea to always use the latest version? Is there a big difference in performance between 5.4 and 7x?
I’m looking at some things in my cPanel and noticed that my server is using PHP 5.4. Should I change it to PHP 7.1? Is it a good idea to always use the latest version? Is there a big difference in performance between 5.4 and 7x?
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You need to test for incompatibilities but PHP 7.1 is much faster, so barring some other reason not to, yes, you should.
if only for security reasons you should, but for resolving common bugs too and performance