My (very limited) knowledge of Joomla is that it doesn't auto update at all. And both of the sites I'm close to - both little used - have been hacked, one of them twice! Both caused by not being up to date. Brian
Sent from my iPhone On 2 May 2012, at 17:02, Mark Rogers <m...@quarella.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Gary (via the list), > >> Hi Mark This is Gary Smith I dont know if you remenber me Ifirst met you >> when we held the meetings at more solutions I have had site at >> http://www.peterborough-lug.org.uk/ for over 3 years I would be happy for >> anyone to contribute to my site. > > Yes, I do remember (both you and your website, although I'd forgotten where > it "lived"). However I didn't want to make any assumptions about whether you > wanted to take on responsibility for the website (and keeping it up to date > etc). > > However, if this is you volunteering then just let me know when it's up to > date and I'll get the entry at www.lug.org.uk updated to point to it. > > I note that you are running Joomla 1.5, which is quite old. One of the joys > of taking on this responsibility would probably be to keep it up to date - > 1.5 was released sometime in 2008 I think, although there are updates the > latest of which is 1.5.26 from March this year and I can't see which version > you're using. The "current" version is 2.5.4. > > Of-course whether or not it is patched up to date makes relatively little > difference to PLUG itself, but as the site gets more noticed (eg links from > lug.org.uk making it more visible to search engines) if it isn't up to date > then it's asking to be hacked, and that will make a difference to your > hosting account! Upgrading to the latest version would probably be a useful > learning exercise for PLUG anyway but what I'm asking is whether you really > want to take on that responsibility! > > I know that Wordpress (for example) is capable of updating itself pretty > well, maybe Joomla can these days too? > > Mark > > -- > Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 > Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
