updating VPS host frequency
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DomainBop
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Packages should be updated regularly. Security updates should be done immediately.
If you're using CentOS you can automate the process with yum-cron (tutorial: https://community.centminmod.com/threads/automatic-nightly-yum-updates-with-yum-cron.1507/ )
If you're using CentOS you can automate the process with yum-cron (tutorial: https://community.centminmod.com/threads/automatic-nightly-yum-updates-with-yum-cron.1507/ )
Depending on what all software you are running on that server I would say daily. I would pick a time of day based on past server logs when you have the least amount of server activity and have updates done at that time.
It depends. In particular, it depends on your customers.
The absolute best thing you can do is to set a company-wide update day, so your customers are not left in the dark in the event that you did a software update.
For us, we update on the 15th of every month (unless something urgent comes out), and we put an announcement up about it. It is a balancing act to keep a regular flow of updates, ensure that you're not breaking clients' stuff, and making sure that you are keeping clients in the loop without bothering them.
The absolute best thing you can do is to set a company-wide update day, so your customers are not left in the dark in the event that you did a software update.
For us, we update on the 15th of every month (unless something urgent comes out), and we put an announcement up about it. It is a balancing act to keep a regular flow of updates, ensure that you're not breaking clients' stuff, and making sure that you are keeping clients in the loop without bothering them.
ZenithHosting
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I do it daily
Jive
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Used to update our machines Wednesday mornings. Us Australians are future sailors so had to leave it until the day after patch Tuesday to have any real benefit for the few Windows boxes I was looking after at the time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday
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It purely comes down to your customers and requirements. But it's recommended to run your patches very often, especially the security updates because if you won't update security patches then you are basically risking every single customer on that node.