# Disabling Automatic Updates

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-updates/264552>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 10, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-updates/264552 "2023-05-10T16:22:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-updates/264552/6 "2023-05-10T17:41:52Z")

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> [@PeakProsperity](#):
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> host went to install a plugin and our site went down for nearly 20 minutes

Because installing a plugin requires rebuilding and then will happend updating too. AFAIK you can’t avoid that.

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