We are excited to share the wonderful news that our advanced uptime monitoring launches, which were initially developed in the Watchful labs, have successfully graduated and are now available for all Watchers. With great improvements and enhancements, the new monitoring system is a significant upgrade from its predecessors. Previously, we Read more
2-factor authentication is a new feature at Watchful that adds an extra layer of security when logging into your website. We’ve written a full tutorial on the subject in our knowledge base, but you can also refer to the quick-start image below. Please be sure to install the Authy or Google Read more
Since we first opened our doors, one of the characteristic features of our service has been the colorful icons on the Watchful Dashboard that indicates whether or not Joomla updates are pending for your websites. Every Joomla user’s goal is keeping their websites in the “green zone”. Red light. Green light. The Read more
As many of you have likely heard, an incredibly serious and widespread security vulnerability, Heartbleed, was recently reported in OpenSSL, an important cryptographic software library used on many servers. OpenSSL is used to secure large swaths of internet communications and thus the Heartbleed weakness allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, Read more
Here at Watchful, our Chief technology Officer and co-founder Pierre-André Vullioud always has something cooking in the laboratory. New developments undergo rigorous research, development, and internal testing on our staging server after initial work on the dev server. Once we have a stable feature, we transfer updates to the production Read more
Today marks a very exciting achievement for the crew here at Watchful as we announce the immediate availability of remote, 1-click updates for the following commercial plugins for the wildly popular JCE content editor for Joomla: Not only does this feature address the most common feature request at Watchful, it marks a Read more
On Friday, the developer of the popular Breezing Forms add-on for Joomla announced a serious vulnerability affecting version 1.7.5 (build 762) and earlier. Based on our research, we expect that about 1 in every 20 Joomla websites is affected by this vulnerability. This is the second serious extension vulnerability reported for Joomla in Read more
If you are like many web developers, it’s a safe bet that you store some of your most commonly used assets online using a cloud storage service. Dropbox is perhaps one of the best-known cloud storage services. We use it internally Watchful, and also at inetis and Anything Digital, to share Joomla add-ons Read more
Currently, there are many ways to remotely update your Joomla web sites from the Watchful dashboard. For example, we recently introduced the remote installer that allows you to install updates for practically any Joomla add-on using either a URL, a Dropbox account or simply uploading a file from your computer. However, you Read more
Today we are excited to announce the release of version 1.7 of the Watchful client. This release has a number of important additions such as: Language and package updates Watchful now supports updating languages and free packages like Kunena and Gantry directly from your dashboard, similar to other updates. Upload Read more