A “staging” or “pre-production” server is a server that hosts your website in the same environment as your production or active server. However, access isn’t public and it’s restricted to developers and persons who test it.
You might confuse this with:
- the rpo
Advantages of having a staging server
Basically, it’s a copy of your website that runs on exactly the same infrastructure as your main website. This means the server is the same, the systems working throughout the website are the same, and so on.
When you’re updating or modifying your website, sometimes it might work on your local computer, but when you upload the changes to the production server, it crashes because of some obscure unforeseen subroutine that is specific to that server environment. Testing the change on a staging server helps reveal those problems before going live.