upgrading 14.04 LAMP server to 16.04

[Tom H]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Wed, 3 Aug 2016 13:44:49 +0100 <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is there an easy way to upgrade 14.04LTS to 16.04LTS *without*
>> clobbering php and mysql in the upgrade? The standard upgrade will
>> upgrade php5.x to php7 and we definitely don't want that.
>
> If you want a *long term* stable LAMP server, you really should be
> looking at CentOS, not Ubuntu.

No one's making the OP move to 16.04. 14.04 is supported until 2019.