Upgrade Ubuntu and PHP

We were asked by a client of ours to oversee the upgrade of their VPS server running Ubuntu v20.04 to Ubuntu v24.04 which runs PHP v8.3 which is the recommended version of PHP for WordPress (as of WordPress v6.8).

This had to be done by upgrading first to Ubuntu v22.04 but all went well and both their sites are now running on PHP that’s supported until 2028!