By klistwa on

Hi,

For those of us who don't have a tech/web background, could someone explain in the simplest terms what "production site" means? There are a lot of references to "production sites" on drupal.org and I just want to make sure that I understand exactly what it means.

Thanks!!

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cog.rusty commented

It means a live site. Or, in other words, it means a site.

As opposed to a development site or a staging site where people are just setting it up or trying improvements.

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klistwa commented

Ok, so static sites that don't have user-generated content are still considered "production sites"?

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cog.rusty commented

Sure. Anything that is intentionally on the web for the world to see is a production site.

And I think that the distinction is even clearer for the old static sites, because they could do development and staging without worrying about losing synchronization with the live site. With dynamic sites the distinction is not always so clear, for technical reasons.