Hey there, A staging site can pass every test and still fail you if it isn't running on the same environment as production. PHP version mismatches catch people most often. Staging on an older version could lead to errors the moment the change goes live. Caching is the quieter one. If production runs Redis or Memcached and staging doesn't, any page speed numbers you pull from staging are measuring the wrong thing. That’s why I recommend using Duplicator Pro’s built-in staging tool. It clones your content and code into an identical copy in a few clicks, so you're never testing against a stale or partial version of your site. |
