Live & Dev in on cPanel accounts or two cPanel accounts (Performance)?

[markus909]

Hello,

I wonder what is the suggested approach an why? When I am on a reseller account myself, should I create better a separate account for the live site and the dev environment? Or is it better to just have them in one account? I wonder if the performance would be impacted in a different way when live/dev are in separate cPanel accounts.

Any others pros, cons, or things I should pay attention when it comes to that topic.

e.g. I see that copy file/DB cannot be done that easily with WP Toolkit, however, I anway like the WP Plugin solution WPVivid and handling staging feature with them instead of WP Toolkit.

Thanks in advance
Markus

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! It's really a personal preference and up to you. I wouldn't expect there to be any performance impact since only the live site is receiving traffic. I've seen some admins create an entirely separate cPanel account and manually copy the data, which is likely the safest way to ensure nothing gets corrupted on the live site.

 

[markus909]

I remember one time even having a separation of vServers for live & dev.

I was just not sure as I saw 3,8GB RAM used out of 4GB. Then I noticed that every cPanel account gets 4GB (at least with my hosting it shows it that way in cPanel). So I thought, it's perhaps better to have them separated (also saves the pain of add-on domains ... even after weeks, I struggle to accept that old concept but perhaps I entered the web infrastructure space too late in life to understand that part)

Sidenote: I also noticed that my cPanel accounts show different facts on physical memory usage which I find odd. They have the same package (and I can't even control assigned physical memory in the packages)

Some show
Physical Memory Usage
0 bytes / 4 GB (0%)

Others show
Physical Memory Usage
0 bytes / 16 GB (0%)

That's why I initially came up with the idea to not have dev/live in one cPanel account (even though it's easier to manage it this way - within one account)