Currently on Wikidot1, I have to edit the "live" pages, and if there are lots of interacting changes, sometimes it leaves the site in an inconsistent state for visitors. I'm used to having a staging server that holds the pre-production version, and when things on the staging server are working well, I throw the switch (well, actually someone pauses the server, copies the file paths from the staging server to the production server, and restarts the production server.)
Any thoughts on doing a similar operation on Wikidot, either 1 or 2? One site I know of uses port 8080 for staging and 80 for production, while another has two URLs, one for each type.
If there were a quick "restore from zip" mode, I could zip the staging WD server and restore the zip to the main WD server, after first clearing it (deleting it?). Something that doesn't involve requests to the WD admin so I can roll forward/roll back as needed.
Thoughts, suggestions. WD2 solution already in the works?
TIA