Auto updates via cronjob - is this safe?

I personally wouldn’t do it. On the one hand, I don’t even need to update monthly for security fixes - which is to say, I read the release notes and make a decision. On the other hand, if you update daily, you’ll find more of the rare times when the thing will fail. You’ll have more downtime, for sure.

If you don’t mind that the cron job will sometimes kill the forum, until someone skilled comes to fix it, then sure, run the cron job. But bear in mind the skilled person might need to engage the developers here and wait some more hours until the thing is diagnosed and fixed.

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