Comment by dofm

> It seems like there is better tooling for running mixed versions of Node or Python than what I've experiences with PHP.

Yeah — the solution on a single machine is either containers or very careful use of different FPM environments, which has tripped me up more than once.

I think most of my inconsequential stuff is simply going to get moved to commercial hosting; my biggest problem right now is an entrenched application that has custom compilation of a PHP build before 8.1.