https://www.linuxhosted.com/tags/ubuntu/Recent content in Ubuntu on LinuxHosted.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenLinuxHosted.comWed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.linuxhosted.com/post/automated-security-updates-ubuntu/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.linuxhosted.com/post/automated-security-updates-ubuntu/ <p>A VPS you stood up six months ago and rarely log into is the most dangerous machine you own. It is still serving traffic, still listening on its open ports, and still running whatever package versions it had the day you walked away — including the ones with public exploits published last week. Patch hygiene is the single highest-leverage thing you can do for an unmonitored server, and on Ubuntu you can hand the whole job to a background service. This guide configures <strong>unattended-upgrades</strong> so security updates install themselves, on a schedule you control, with a reboot policy you choose.</p>