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Full and Custom Deploy of your Staging site

Full and Custom Deploy of your Staging site

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There are two options to push your staging copy to your live site. In this tutorial, you find detailed information on how to use both ways for best results.

How to access the deployment options

Important! To ensure the stability and optimal performance of our servers the following limitations apply to the Staging service:

  • The site database has to be under 2GB
  • You must have under 500 tables in your database
  • You must have more than 51% free space in your account
  • You must have more than 20% free inodes in your account
  • You can have up to 10 staging environments per account
  • You can make up to 15 staging operations daily
  • The Staging tool is also not compatible with WordPress Multisite at the moment

Important If the WordPress version of the staging website is lower than the live site’s one the push to live functionality will not work. Make sure to update the WordPress core of the staging copy to the latest available version before you push to live.

Using the Full Deploy option

With a single click, you will overwrite your staging copy over your live site. In this process, both the files and the database of the live site will be replaced with the ones from your staging copy.

In case you don’t want to make a full deployment to live, you can use the Custom Deploy functionality instead.

Using the Custom Deploy option

It will compare all changes you’ve made to the files and database of your staging copy with the current state of your live site.

This option is suitable in many cases. For example, if your visitors have commented on some of your WordPress posts, you wouldn’t want to overwrite your _comments table. This way of pushing your changes live gives you all the flexibility you need. You have control on every part of the copy that will be deployed to live. Here is a list of site elements you can select whether to be deployed to live or not:

  • To be Added – files and database tables that are present on the staging copy, but not on the live site;
  • To be Updated – files and database tables that are present in both the staging copy and the live site, but have different contents;
  • To be Deleted – files and database tables present in the live site, but not on the staging copy. The ones you select will be removed from the live site.

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