Just for reference purposes, I just updated a server to php71, and Joomla and Wordpress run fine on it. The speed of loading is dramatically improved. Fortunately, UBBThreads is on a different server, so that can wait until the work is done.


The Stovebolt Geek
https://www.stovebolt.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php

Server Information
UBB.threads Version 7.7.5
Release 20201027
Server OS Linux
Server Load 0.16
Web Server Apache/2.4.6
PHP Version 7.4.33
MYSQL Version 5.7.43
Database Size 1.85 GB