Worried about getting your live website messed up on performing upgrades, doing some installation, some customization, etc.? Setup up a staging environment and free yourself from such problems. This service lets you have a staging environment setup for your live website, where you can perform any operations and test them fully before making them live to avoid any issues.
Evaluate Everything Before Going Live !
Salient Features of Staging Website
Testing Of Upgrades
If you need to upgrade any plugin or theme on your website, then first do the upgrade on the staging website, so issues existing in the upgrade are detected in the development environment itself and no harm is caused to the production site.
Avoiding Fatal Errors
If any change (upgrade, code change, new plugin installation) can cause a fatal error on the live website, so that will also cause the error on the staging website and you can fix that issue on staging only to prevent the same on live site.
A Place to do Quality Assessment
QA process is much important to figure out the bugs / errors that are missed during development phase of a product. But, testing of each and every setting can take time and can cause errors, so stagings are best place to do QA of products.
Testing Compatibility Of New Plugins
New plugins can be installed on staging first to check if they are fully compatible with your website’s other plugins and theme. After compatibility is tested thoroughly, the plugins can be installed on the live website.
Testing of Technology Changes & Upgrades
If you are planning to change or upgrade the technology used on your website, then doing it first on staging can prevent any major issues.
Build Prototypes of New UI designs
UI developers get place to build prototypes for new suggested designs or features. They can just create the designs, do not need to put many efforts in demonstrating the designs to teammates.
Test Ground for Developers
Developers get a ground for testing anything like any new code customization & integration without worrying about errors that can affect the business reputation.
Easy and Cost-Effective Setup
Stagings are usually simple to set up and also it does not cost you much, so, it’s better to invest some time on setting them up rather than investing a lot of time on fixing issues directly on the live website and risking your brand reputation.
Creates Tension Free Environment
Suppose a developer does some code customization that leads to a major error on live site, so it becomes very urgent for the him to fix that error and he cannot postpone it even if he has some other priority tasks too. Having staging set up can prevent such situations to max possible.
Major Advantages of Having a Staging Website
How it Works?
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Provide Us Details
You just need to provide us your server details.
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Set Up Staging
We’ll then set up the staging for you on the server of your website.
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Provide you with Details
After set up, we’ll share with you the details of your staging website.
Details Required:
After you purchase this service from us, please file a support ticket to us mentioning below details to let us start working on your staging setup:
- Website Admin Details
Website URL
Email
Password
- FTP or SSH Details:
FTP Host / SSH Host:
SSH Port:
FTP Username / SSH User (Root Access):
FTP Password / SSH Password:
FAQs
Where will be the staging set up done? We’ll set up the staging on the server of your website. Or if you have any server space issue, then you can refer Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Tier to setup your staging website absolutely FREE for one year. Explore the range of free products and services from AWS by simply clicking here.
Is there any specific requirement for setting up a staging website for my website? A staging is an exact replica of the live website, so all plugins on the live site need to be installed on the staging as well. So, please make sure that the plugins installed on your website allow themselves to be used on the development website (which is not available publicly) too along with main website.
You need to make sure that your staging site must either be in Maintenance mode or in a password protected directory as it cannot be publicly accessible.
Can I avail this plan on multiple websites? No, you cannot avail the same service for multiple websites. If you want this service for multiple websites then you need to purchase it separately for each website.
Can I opt this service for only SocialEngine based website or can I opt for other kind of websites as well? This service is mainly designed for SocialEngine based website, but if you want to avail this service for other platform websites, please contact us.
Any query still left to answered, please feel free to contact us.
