By williamquinn
Hi There! I was wondering thoughts on doing the following for a staging site to live site workflow through DO:
-Creating a snapshot of the live site (site)
- Creating a droplet from this snapshot (staging.site)
- testing changes on this new droplet
- making these changes live by either doing them on the live site, or somehow pushing them live in DO
A few questions in regards to this:
- can you merge a snapshot into a droplet?
- If I have a droplet live for less then a day do I still get charge the monthly fee?
- Is there a preferred workflow for doing something like this?
My goal is to build a Workflow where my staging server can push to live site in as seamless of a way possible.
Thanks so much!
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- No you can’t merge snapshots, what you can do is create a temporary droplet and rsync stuff over to the live droplet and then destroy that temporary droplet so you don’t get charged for use you’re not using.
- Billing is charged in hours so if its been up for 1 day you’ll be charged (whatever your droplet price is per hour * amount of hours used so far).
- You’ll have to wait for someone elses reply.
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