Thanks Isaac for your reply.
Forgive me if wish to dig deeper as I understand there is a difference between MySQL and MariaDB.
It sounds like apples and pears to me. MySQL version don't seem to be connected to MariaDB versions right? This because MySQL seems to be in version 8.0.34 since June and MariaDB is above 10.4.x
My provider say when I migrate to almalinux8 that
MySQL 8.0 is the lowest possible version supported on a new almalinux8 install
I have only used MySQL and never MariaDB.
So the natural thing for me would be to ask my provider to upgrade to MySQL 8.0.xx
and after checking that all works fine migrate to the almalinux8.
That would update my site so things are not obsolete.
Then when UBBT officially announce version 8.0.x then I can go ahead and update PHP to 8.0.x
Looking at your image Isaac it does not look that you have run any forum on MySQL ver 8.0.x yet???
Is that the right conclusion???
The last thing is that I found out now is that using almalinux8 I can run mariadb 10.3 on it as the lowest version on MariaDB. If I must go this way what do I need to think of then to make it work with my forum???
Thanks in advance for enlighten me 😁
