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I've been working for a few years on a project for a friend of mine, and it has slowly grown into a large website. In the early stages, I just did development on my local machine with a local database, then deployed any site and database changes to the live site.

This worked well for a while, but lately we've been having issues with deployment. We'd like to set up a staging environment for testing before we deploy to the production environment.

The site I'm using for hosting doesn't offer a staging environment for the site, so I was wondering what I can do to get a staging environment set up. If my site is www.mysite.com, can I use staging.mysite.com, or do I need to purchase another domain?

I'm curious as to how other people handle this...

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  • i normally use mysite.local for local development and mysite.staging for, staging. Depending on who needs to access local and staging, its enough to maintain local dns or a hosts-file to view the different websites. Commented Dec 14, 2010 at 3:19

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Not sure this is an SO question but in case it is:

  • It would depend on the services offered by your web host, some offer sub-domains, for a price
  • You could also deploy to a sub-folder, eg www.mysite.com/staging
  • Purchase another (cheaper?) hosting plan, eg www.mystagingsite.com
  • If you don't need public access, just deploy to another local machine, either physical or virtual
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