If you are hosted with me and you are using an open source script, please let me know if your site is acting differently or if you’ve experienced some kind of error within the past 24hrs. I’ve performed a forced upgrade on all scripts. Please note that upgrades are necessary for security reasons and if you’re not tending to your own upgrades from your control panel, I have no choice but to do it to protect your site and private data.
Everything should be working fine, but just in case something’s happened to your site please let me know so I can fix the problem (these changes should not affect template files):
Magento: ver 1.7.0.0 to 1.7.0.1
Wordpress: ver 3.3.2 to 3.4
Wordpress: 3.2.1 to 3.4
Coppermine: ver 1.5.14 to 1.5.20
Joomla: ver 1.7.2 to 2.5.6 (database table structure updated)
Ohh so this was the reason, that last night your website wasn’t opening?
I was on my website last night, it was working fine. Are you sure it’s not something on your side? Updates were done in the early hours of this morning, not last night.
All the websites were opening, and while opening your website it was showing server not found error.
No idea why that happened.
Thank you for the update information. I upgraded my site yesterday. But here is easy to update joomla site from the admin panel. So, it takes 2 minutes for me.
It doesn’t take long from my side either. Thank goodness for new technology right?
But the post is actually just an update for people who are hosting with me, sometimes they don’t really have the time to upgrade their scripts so I just do it for them from my side because upgrading is necessary for website security.
It is always a good thing to rely on the manual upgrades. The biggest advantage that the manual upgrades provide is the control over the core scripts and an overall management of the same.
Automatic upgrades are alright, they do work just as well most of the time. But sometimes people whose websites I host can be late in upgrading their scripts so I have no choice but to do a force upgrade, for the sake of security.
I do agree with Sabrina that automatic upgrades have to be forces at times, it is only because these consume less time than the manual upgrades. Additionally, one can always fix the errors that may occur.
I don’t have anything against whichever upgrade method is used (to each his own). But when you’re hosting people’s sites it is your responsibility to ensure that scripts are upgraded for the sake of security, for all sites in the server.