By ramdak5000
I am planning to sign up for one or more D.O droplets, but, coming from a cPanel/WHM background, where all aspects of the LAMP stack and other software packages are automatically updated, secured and maintained by cPanel, needing to maintain everything by myself seems rather daunting.
I know there are one-click scripts for installing the OS, Apache, MySQL and PHP, but what about updating them to apply patches etc.? How exactly does one go about ensuring that the different LAMP stack components and other software packages such as, say, phpmyadmin are kept updated?
I am planning to run Ubuntu LTS on the droplets.
How much time would I need to spend on a weekly/monthly basis, updating all this stuff on the server?
Thanks in advance, Ramdak
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Hey Ramdak,
As long as everything was installed via the package manager (apt-get), you can update the entire system with 2 commands:
- sudo apt-get update
and
- sudo apt-get upgrade
You can do this weekly or monthly, but it should be done at least every once in awhile. Especially if a vulnerability is announced and patched. You can automate this with a cronjob, but that would be up to your discretion.
NOTE: The 14.04LTS distro will require you to update the kernel in the control panel if the software update/upgrade installs a new kernel.
Happy coding,
Jon Schwenn Platform Support Specialist DigitalOcean
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