Staging Site Server Role

Adrien

I'd like to have a server dedicated to staging sites in my cluster which means we would have a staging Role available.

It would help not to expose our main application server IPs where live websites are running. It may also help SEO not to run live and staging websites on the same IP.
Some customers also forget to delete their staging websites and these sites are sometimes super messy, heavy and not updated/taken care of. It eats the resources of critical live websites.

ss88us

Adrien I actually think this is a great idea. Clients absolutely leave the staging websites unprotected and just 'there'. Having them on one independent server would at least mean any security holes/flaws are exclusive to one machine. It can also mean the server itself can be underpowered.

bert

8Dweb

JohnB

If this was made a feature I think it should be optional. Personally I don't want staging on different hardware if I am testing performance optimizations or comparing performance between current vs new site etc.

Andreas

JohnB Thats why it was suggested as a Role. This way you can specify what server the role will be assigned too. Just like application, DB, mail, DNS

I hope that made it clear.

JohnB

Andreas I misread the OP. Yes that makes sense. Good idea.

PradeepC

adil

This is a great suggestion +1

Shaijee

manu

FabioP

+1 for me

hansoo

lefteris

I think, submitting your staging domain to enhance cluster settings and then moving it to the desired webserver is what you want.

XN-Matt

lefteris No, the OP means an actual server where all staging sites reside before they are moved to the "live" server when pushed live/in to prod.

Abdeen

slimx

Shaijee

Adam

The way to achieve this would be to create a "staging" plan which has the Staging websites resource and provisions to a server group containing only the server(s) you want to use for staging. Then create a "live" plan which only provisions to the non-staging servers and only contains the Websites resource and not the Staging websites resource. Subscribe your customer to both plans. When they create a staging website under the staging plan it will be placed on the staging websites. When they "push live" to the live website it will be placed on the live web server group.

8Dweb

Adam That is an interesting idea. I wonder how easy it would be to automate this from WHMCS setup... Thanks for this work-around we can try at this time.