How do I update my web application?

We strongly recommend you ensure all applications you have running on your site are kept as up to date as possible and are secure.

A web application is an application you would have installed on to your hosting package to provide a specific service or help with the management and design of parts of the site, for example Wordpress, Joomla, Dot Net Nuke, PHPbb, vBulletin etc.

If you have installed your application manually, through FTP, then you will need to check with the vendors of that application for how best to keep it up to date and secure.

If you installed the application through the Application Vault tool on our shared hosting plans then you can upgrade the application in your hosting package control panel as per the following:

Mega\Giga\Tera Plesk plans:

Wordpress cPanel plans:

Application Vault on http://cp.blacknight.com (legacy Minimus\Medius\Maximus hosting plan):
# Websites > Domainname > Web Applications > application name > Upgrade

Notes:

* All upgrades are done at your own risk. You may want to check that all your plugins and themes will work after an upgrade, and that you have a backup you can roll back to if needed.
* It is not recommended to perform manual updates of applications installed via the application vault as this may unlink these from the control panel.

* Sometimes the most up to date application can be compromised still if there is an out of date or un-secure plugin or theme installed on it so you may want to ensure you keep your plugins and themes up to date also.
* Keep an eye out for known vulnerabilities in the most recent releases of common applications, typically an application vendor will release a security update quite soon if there is a known compromise but some applications may no longer been maintained and so are vulnerable to compromise.