Cloudways have a similar feature that I used before switching and am now missing dearly. Where there is a staging feature that allows pushing and pulling to and from a staging site. It is agnostic to the type of site, Wordpress, custem PHP, laravel, whatever. It just copies the public_html folder contents across to a temporary staging domain. It also copies across the database too, but you can choose when pushing and pulling whether to copy just the public_html files, or just the database, or both at once. This is great for when working on apps where the data is likely updating regularly on the public app, so you can have the staging run on a static set of the real data that you can pull periodically to keep up to date.
We'll gladly develop that functionality once the demand increases. Right now, people need reseller hosting functionality, Docker integration, a migration tool which we are working on.
I want to point out that Cloudways didn’t invent this feature. Everyone who used to host their sites on wp.com knows about it! And yes — here’s another person asking for proper staging functionality! It’s extremely useful!
I also feel the marketing team at your company should know that this was one of our key criteria when looking for a new host after leaving wp.com. At the time we left, Cloudways was the only provider we found that offered it. So if you run a survey, I’m sure you’ll find we’re not the only ones :)
Thank you for joining the Cloud Democracy Project! I'm glad to see you here!
SPanel supports staging for WordPress websites via the SPanel WordPress Manager and also via Softaculous which also supports staging for all popular PHP website applications.
I want to know what in the existing staging functionality doesn't meet your requirements.
Ultimately, our job is to deliver what the majority of people need, and I greatly appreciate everyone's feedback in this and all other threads on features.spanel.io.
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Cloudways have a similar feature that I used before switching and am now missing dearly. Where there is a staging feature that allows pushing and pulling to and from a staging site. It is agnostic to the type of site, Wordpress, custem PHP, laravel, whatever. It just copies the public_html folder contents across to a temporary staging domain. It also copies across the database too, but you can choose when pushing and pulling whether to copy just the public_html files, or just the database, or both at once. This is great for when working on apps where the data is likely updating regularly on the public app, so you can have the staging run on a static set of the real data that you can pull periodically to keep up to date.
We'll gladly develop that functionality once the demand increases. Right now, people need reseller hosting functionality, Docker integration, a migration tool which we are working on.
I want to point out that Cloudways didn’t invent this feature. Everyone who used to host their sites on wp.com knows about it! And yes — here’s another person asking for proper staging functionality! It’s extremely useful!
I also feel the marketing team at your company should know that this was one of our key criteria when looking for a new host after leaving wp.com. At the time we left, Cloudways was the only provider we found that offered it. So if you run a survey, I’m sure you’ll find we’re not the only ones :)
Hello, Gary!
Thank you for joining the Cloud Democracy Project! I'm glad to see you here!
SPanel supports staging for WordPress websites via the SPanel WordPress Manager and also via Softaculous which also supports staging for all popular PHP website applications.
I want to know what in the existing staging functionality doesn't meet your requirements.
Ultimately, our job is to deliver what the majority of people need, and I greatly appreciate everyone's feedback in this and all other threads on features.spanel.io.
Thanks, Gary!
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