This website went live on September 3, 2012. Eight years later it feels like we’re still just getting started! Last year, on our birthday, we published a nostalgic overview with lots of photos and stories. This year’s birthday post is a very different kind of overview. Because Watchful really is Read more…
When you’re building a company, nothing comes quickly or easily. Seven years ago this week, we launched Watchful. Watchful was built on top of an existing extension called jMonitoring that dates back to 2009, so this project has been going for a decade now. I’m deeply grateful to all our Read more…
Today we are excited to announce that we have officially begun to migrate our website update and monitoring service to the watchful.net domain. Our original domain name watchful.li will be phased out. Since launching in 2012, Watchful has had a complicated relationship with its domain name watchful.li. As we have explained to many folks at conferences and online, Read more…
Watchul is pleased to annunce that Francesco Abeni will be joining the development team at Watchful as interim Chief Technology Officer. Francesco is one of the original members of the Watchful development team and is well-suited to expanding the feature set and modernizing the code base. Francesco replaces Pierre-Andre Vullioud as Read more…
Like many web services, Watchful has been busy making changes to address the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to go into effect in the European Union on May 25, 2018. We are working towards GDPR compliance in four main areas: Obtaining consent from users to collect and store personal Read more…
In the coming weeks, we plan to migrate our infrastructure from WiredTree to Amazon Web Service (AWS). The primary reasons for this change are to move to a scalable system that can be expanded as needed during high-volume events (such as the release of an important software update) and to Read more…
Customer satisfaction has always been a top priority at Watchful. From our launch, we have relied on a mix of public documentation, self-hosted help desk software, internal workflows and personal communication by email, phone or instant message. While effective, these disparate tools have made it difficult to objectively measure customer Read more…
Today watchful celebrates 3 years of helping people improve Joomla website security through centralized software updates and site backups, and improved website management. To mark the occasion, we are happy to announce the public launch our new auditing tool that performs a deep scan of your website and file system. Read more…
Today we are excited to announce that the Single Sign-on plugin for Joomla has left the beta-testing phase and is now available for all our users. This release is the result of nearly 2 months of testing internally by our team and of course by our fabulous Watchers who volunteered Read more…
A few weeks ago we introduced our new, faster dashboard for managing your portfolio of Joomla websites as well as a guide to maximizing your site maintenance productivity. With help from our dedicated Watchers and their excellent feedback, the engineering team identified and then fixed a number of bugs. As a Read more…