Introduction
In our ongoing efforts to provide the best managed WordPress hosting experience, we're pleased to clarify a common question among our customers regarding staging sites. Specifically, we want to address how staging sites interact with your account's disk space and site count limitations.
What is a Staging Site?
A staging site is a clone of your live website, which allows you to test changes, updates, and new features in a private environment. This environment is an exact replica of your live site, including the WordPress core, plugins, themes, and all content. However, it's isolated from your live environment, ensuring that any tests or changes do not affect your public-facing site.
Staging Sites and Your Hosting Account
To provide a seamless development experience, staging sites created within our managed WordPress hosting environment do not count towards your account's disk space or site count limits. This policy is designed to encourage the use of staging environments for testing without worrying about additional costs or exceeding account limitations.
Disk Space Considerations
When you create a staging site, it occupies server space temporarily. However, this space usage is not reflected in your account's disk space quota. We manage the infrastructure to ensure that your development and testing activities on staging sites remain unaffected by disk space limitations, thus enabling you to focus on improving your website.
Site Count Policy
Similarly, staging sites are excluded from your account's total site count. This means you can create and manage multiple staging sites for different purposes—be it testing a new theme, plugin compatibility, or major WordPress updates—without impacting the number of live sites your account can host.
Benefits of Our Staging Site Policy
Risk-Free Testing: Safely test updates and changes without risking your live site's functionality or user experience.
Unrestricted Development: Enjoy the freedom to innovate and experiment with your site's design and functionality without disk space or site count concerns.
Simplified Management: Our managed WordPress hosting platform provides easy-to-use tools for creating, managing, and deleting staging sites as needed.
Conclusion
Our commitment to providing a superior managed WordPress hosting service includes ensuring that our customers have the resources they need to succeed. By not counting staging sites towards disk space or site count limits, we aim to empower you to develop and test your sites with confidence and ease. Should you have any questions or require assistance with your staging sites, our support team is here to help 24/7.