I'm sorry you feel that way. PHP's own developers do not support 5.6. This is not news, their timeline was entirely public. (Notice how far past the end of extended support of PHP 5.6 the dashed red "today" line is.) It is not feasible or responsible for us to continue to provide outdated, unsupported tools that do not receive critical security fixes. (And few things have a worse security track record of needing constant fixes than PHP.) Most people who've been with us for a long time have done so because they trust our judgment and think we work responsibly to provide maximum flexibility with minimum risk. If you think you know better than us and PHP's developers, that's your call. You will indeed have to find other hosting if you want to continue to use PHP 5.6. Using PHP 5.6 without support is objectively a bad idea, and the effort of setting up and maintaining an environment even remotely close to what we provide will almost certainly require substantially more effort to build and maintain than just updating for the new version. With a few small exceptions, compatibility is quite high. So if you go that route, more power to you, but that sounds like a lot of extra work just to pretend like the world doesn't continue to turn if you don't want it to. As for WordPress, if your claim is that modern versions of WordPress are somehow less secure than older versions, that's also objectively incorrect, as shown by their release history and the number of fixes for security issues known to exist in older versions.