# Forge: Composer Update Times

DevFeed: [Forge: Composer Update Times](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/forge-composer-update-times-3649.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/forge-composer-update-times>)

Author: James Brooks

Published: 2020-05-05T14:23:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [Composer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/composer.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [DDoS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ddos.md>)

Tags: [ddos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ddos.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>)

## AI overview

Forge changed the Composer self-update cron task on new and existing servers to run at randomized times. This replaced the previous midnight schedule, when all Forge servers updated simultaneously and unintentionally caused a DDoS against Composer's servers.

## Source excerpt

At the beginning of April, we deployed a change to all new and existing Forge servers to randomize the `composer self-update` cron task. Previously, all Forge servers would attempt to update Composer...