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#10866 live update suggestion

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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 29 January 2012 02:04 CST

Sunday, 29 January 2012 01:58 CST

aykIrI
When I tried to update my sites with Live update (Admin Tools & AkeebaBackup) recently, I experienced some XML file warning message. Time was short and I did the job manually without problem.

Lately I looked into forum & documentation and found the reason. Since my subscription Download ID changed, live update parameters and update links need to update. I updated download ID with new one, Refreshed update information on Live Update page and problem solved.

When I saw it first, the XML file error message was not clear to me. I thought there were something wrong with server, permissions, component etc..

It could be better to show information to the user by LiveUpdate (plus a subscription renewal link to encourage renewal) if subscription expired or Downolad ID was invalid.

Sunday, 29 January 2012 02:04 CST

nicholas
These messages are thrown by Joomla!'s JInstaller. JInstaller behaves as a black box. Once you get this error message it is impossible to know if the problem was a wrong/missing Download ID, failed download, unwritable tmp directory, extraction issue, a bad package (the developer did forget to add the XML manifest), a Joomla! bug, an installation failure due to uncommon permissions or something else I have not yet seen happening on a site. Therefore, it is impossible to do what you suggest without polling AkeebaBackup.com for the validity of your download ID. And then, scaling issues begin.

If you have thousands of site polling AkeebaBackup.com every time they check for the existence of a new version or whenever the Live Update page is asked, within a matter of hours there will be no AkeebaBackup.com; this kind of traffic will effectively be akin to a DDoS attack and bring the server down. I know because that's what I did in April 2011 with Akeeba Backup 3.3.a2. The site was down in 2 hours, the host had to reboot the server and I had to redirect all requests to update information to a 403 error and, subsequently, to a CDN. That was the only way I could handle the traffic surge

So, no, this ain't happening.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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