alt Hacker News> Old server: CentOS 7 — long past its end-of-life, but still running in production. New server: AlmaLinux 9.7 — a RHEL 9 compatible distribution and the natural successor to CentOS.
So they did same mistake all over again. Debian or Ubuntu would just be upgrade-in-place and migrate
I work with Linux deployments for a living and I have no idea what you are talking about.