The best advice is the kind you don't want to hear. :-)

Well...you might be surprised...

Don't host test and prod on the same server

We've been revising our infrastructure plan, and we've reached agreement on the next stage of growth. This will be a server for production and test environments plus a smaller server for dev. Test will be for making relatively small changes and releasing new features limited to our codebase whereas dev will be for testing system-wide changes such as database version, OS upgrades and Apache configuration.

It's not happening immediately as there is not the revenue or traffic to warrant it right now, but it is agreed as a forward plan.

Thanks hippo. Before this thread, the idea of a separate server hadn't entered our thought process.

In reply to An update (was: Re^2: Holding site variables) by Bod
in thread Holding site variables by Bod

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