I am upgrading a website from Magento 2.2 to 2.5 and running into an error. I read through a lot of threads and forums but nothing is working. This includes adding

max_execution_time 60000, set_time_limit(0) in my php.ini

I am using Cloudways and they said any PHP directives defined in a .htaccess will not be used. To use PHP-FPM Settings.

I added the following values:

I restarted my server and looked into my phpinfo() and saw the changes I made were the same values in the image attached.

Preconditions

1. Running Magento 2.2.2, upgrading to 2.2.5
2. I have 1 website 1 store 4 store views. Over 250k orders and about 400 products.

Steps to reproduce

1. composer require magento/product-community-edition 2.2.5 –no-update
2. composer update
3. rm -rf var/di/* var/generation/* var/cache/* var/log/* var/page_cache/* var/session/* var/view_preprocessed/* pub/static/*
4. php bin/magento setup:upgrade

Expected result

1. The Magento 2.2.2 upgrades to 2.2.5.

Actual result

1. Time to upgrade takes longer than 300 seconds.
2. The maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded in /home/150747.cloudwaysapps.com/qqemzvkvdx/public_html/vendor/magento/frame
   work/ObjectManager/Factory/AbstractFactory.php on line 111

Thanks for reading. Anything helps!