Question for web professionals: When you say "production" as in "production environment" or "pushing something

Question

Question for web professionals: When you say "production" as in "production environment" or "pushing something

Answer 1

Yes, production means 'live'. I currently have a large web application running on 2 different servers. The instance on the first server is my 'production environment' - users are logged in, the application and database are backed up daily, the disks are mirrored, and I only make changes during specified maintenance periods. The second server is my development environment, used for testing, debugging, trying out new features, upgrades, etc. When I am satisfied with a change to the code on the development server, I'll push it to the production server.

Answer 2

Production is the same as any business and "production environment" is just something that you learned in computer school today.



What do you wand to, maybe making a live web 2.0 site for possible customers that directs them to a static site for general viewing and ordering with a database or online purchase possibility.



Its possible that it is the other way around and in that case you could sell your product name as an environment production. - As a name brand.



All the above requires a large amount of servers and space regardless of your fancy words.



Get in contact or get yourself a large server, and your questions will be answered by then.

Answer 3

Production means LIVE, PUBLIC, Implemented.



Staging means QA (Quality Assurance) sometimes, but technically it would be AFTER that - meaning that it has passed QA. A staging server is a place that is clean and aids in implementing a product.

Answer 4

Production is a live site on the web.



I work for a large webhost in the US-

Answer 5

Production means live

Answer 6

Yes production = live != staging.

Answer 7

When you push something to an environment, you publish or move it to an environment.



Here are the industry terms for the environments:



Sandbox - a messy Development environment you can play around in and try whatever you want.

Development - is where your coding is done by the developers

Integration(Test or Staging) - is ideally identical to your Production environment so you can test your changes after promoting/pushing them from Dev to Int. This is where your customers can test out the end result too.



Finally...

Production - is the live environment that is used by the end-user.