staging (need, want, or meh)

digitalexpanse

If you're in the hosting industry as we are, what are your thoughts on staging as a core requirement?

Need, Want, or Meh

This is my second post on this, and we're struggling with this as the majority of customers we onboard, this is a top priority. And I believe this is a top priority for most industry hosting companies because it's a top priority for website owners.

We're operating perfectly within Enhance and have zero issues as it stands today. Are there features that would be nice to have or wants? Yes, however, none of these are essential to us scaling this exponentially.

Notes: We're not noobs, hobbyists, etc

cloudflare enterprise partners
no email services
strictly web hosting

Enhance @Adam

I understand how important the new staging feature is to you but we have to prioritise the features which are relevant to the majority of our customers first. August is only 4 months away.

And while four months and might feel close, in an economic sense and for those of us running a business, this can easily translate to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

So it's my understanding that STAGING is not important to anyone on Enhance? And I'd love to clarify this. Please plus one the shit out of this post if this is something that makes sense to you as a core requirement. Thanks!

prasad0889

I can wait till August for staging, but yes it is an important feature.
digitalexpanse You are right, some features might cause a lot of loss even when the time is just 4 months.
I would have loved GIT integration, but that is still a very far way to go.

Adrien

digitalexpanse It's a super important feature for me too even if I enter the "Noobs" category.
I was a noob at Warcraft ROC but this time I plan to improve my APM and hope to see this staging + cloning thing working.

tecreasey

I build a lot of my websites in a staging environment first before launching the site. I also perform many major changes and updates to sites on s staging site. Additionally, I use a staging site sometimes to troubleshoot and testing.

So for me, to answer your question, staging sites are important to me.

digitalexpanse

@tecreasey @prasad0889
And that's just it, these are your needs, I'm talking about the website owner's here. Every single client that I've had come through wants staging, which is most these days, onboards with a competitor.

prasad0889

digitalexpanse Even if Enhance upgrades their staging where the sync between PROD and Staging is flawless, clients will be happy. But, yes, we will have to wait till August till the staging function is properly functional, also just hoping that it doesn't get pushed forward.

Zoinkies

How much are you paying per month for CF Enterprise?

digitalexpanse

Zoinkies thousands, why?

Are you using Enhance? We'd be good to go if we had proper staging and the ability to restore a backup to a server of our choice. We don't really need anything else, though a few options would be nice to have it doesn't change our core business at all.

Zoinkies

digitalexpanse Just interested, we're paying over 5k+, per month, and it's increasing soon for us, by about 800$ per month. We use Enhance on some of our packages, but I am thinking keeping Plesk/cPanel/Enhance all together, a lot of my customers don't want to move to Enhance, and prefer Plesk/cPanel.