In reply to Peter Cralen.

PHP 7.x for production environments means you like to live at the edge of the razor.

Here for production (and we manage servers with >50M of hits daily on the OPC cache) we use 5.5.x versions and no one blamed/cried for it.

I would be very vary of being hosted at a place where their PHP is a 5.2 or a 5.3 and their support says about 'compatibility matrix' or BS like that.

Certainly cPanel et al doesn't help to alleviate this.