Staging is an environment for us to test and view your web application and changes before they go live to the world (production).

This would give us insight into specific configurations we would need to account for when building your web application. That will give us an idea of the “production environment”.Īn example of information we need to know could be: Your production environment uses nginx as a web service, php 7.4 and php fpm to render php and the server is managed via cpanel. When planning a new site, we always ask “ where will your final website be hosted?”. This could be an internal office computer, a developer's personal computer or nowadays it’s usually a docker container set close to replicate the production server.

When we, the developers, first start to build your website we do so in what we call the dev environment. Now that you have an idea of what a server environment is let's talk about the different types of environments, dev and production. Once your server is set up for your website, this is called the “ environment”. There are thousands of combinations on how to properly set up a server specific to your website's demands and new technologies emerge daily. No, not that environment… this environmentĮach server ( computer) used to host a website or application has different hardware and software dependencies in order for it to function properly. To understand staging let's start talking about the word environment. This is a safe place that allows you to test any changes - major or minor - that you plan on implementing in a secure environment, preventing any unexpected errors on your live website. Staging is a copy of your production environment (your current live website) on a private server.

Installation staging area