Websites need updates regularly. There are two kinds of updates, and the update window only applies to the first kind.
Updates of your websites
These are updates of the application itself, such as WordPress, TYPO3 or the packages of a Node.js app.
- You choose an update window yourself: the days and a 4-hour block in which updates may run.
- Security updates run every day in the chosen block.
- Other updates only run on the chosen days, in the chosen block.
- The window applies to all websites of your organization.
Updates of the platform
These are updates of PHP, Node.js, components such as databases, and the servers themselves. Your provider schedules them. They don't take your update window into account.
Good to know
- Major versions are never updated automatically. You move to a new major version yourself or together with your provider.
- Security updates cannot be turned off. If you postpone them, they still run after a number of days. The number of days is shown on the Updates page.
- If you don't choose your own window, you follow your provider's default.