Because neither owncloud, nor newly developed nextcloud, nor osTicket in spite of months of promises, will run under PHP 7, and I’ve also got a customers website consisting of 1910 PHP code that totally breaks, I am setting up a new server with two year old software specifically for these applications.

     The new server will be called “antique.eskimo.com”, it will not be something you can login to, it will just be a web server setup like the existing machine except that it will be running PHP 5.6 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS so that it can run antique PHP code.  Being an LTS release it will still have security updates so will not represent a security threat.

     In addition to being able to run old code, it will also provide a back door to get to our ticket system or webmail when the main web server is inoperable as it will be on a totally different physical host machine.