{"id":2436,"date":"2015-05-04T16:53:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T22:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2015-05-04T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T22:53:20","slug":"inmotion-hosting-prominently-promoting-installation-of-eold-joomla-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/04\/inmotion-hosting-prominently-promoting-installation-of-eold-joomla-version\/","title":{"rendered":"InMotion Hosting Prominently Promoting Installation of EOL’d Joomla Version"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to keeping websites secure, keeping the software on them up to date is one of the basic measures that needs to be taken<\/a>.\u00a0We know that web hosts are aware of this because they will often tell people when their websites have been hacked that it was due to outdated software (since this usually isn’t based on any actually evidence, it often is wrong). Unfortunately we continue to find that web hosts don’t bother to make sure that they are not distributing outdated software to their customers.<\/p>\n

Recently while doing some work on a web site hosted with InMotion Hosting, we noticed that in the website’s cPanel control panel that the option to install Joomla 2.5 was being prominently displayed:<\/p>\n

\"inmotion-hosting-cpanel-joomla-25\"<\/p>\n

That should not be happening since\u00a0support for Joomla 2.5 ended back on December 31<\/a>. Not only does that put websites at risk if a security issues is found in Joomla 2.5, but it can cause unnecessary trouble down the road\u00a0because\u00a0upgrading from Joomla 2.5 to 3.x is not always the one-click upgrade it is a promoted as<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the installation page they do provide the option to install the currently supported version of Joomla, 3.4.1, as well. But you would have to select that version from a drop down box:<\/p>\n

\"inmotion-hosting-joomla-25-installation-page\"<\/p>\n

The problems don’t stop there. On the main page for their software installing service the ninth slot is Moodle 2.0:<\/p>\n

\"inmotion-hosting-top-applications\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Support for Moodle 2.0 ended nearly three years ago, in June 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As with Joomla, they do also offer supported versions, but\u00a0you would have to select those from a dropdown where 2.0 is the default:<\/p>\n

\"inmotion-hosting-moodle-20-installation-page\"<\/p>\n

Installing this version now will lead to otherwise unnecessary work down the road because\u00a0Moodle will have to\u00a0be upgraded to version 2.2 before it can be upgraded to a version 2.3 of higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to keeping websites secure, keeping the software on them up to date is one of the basic measures that needs to be taken.\u00a0We know that web hosts are aware of this because they will often tell people when their websites have been hacked that it was due to outdated software (since this … Continue reading “InMotion Hosting Prominently Promoting Installation of EOL’d Joomla Version”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,22,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-security","category-joomla","category-moodle","category-outdated-web-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}