Best deployment strategy with D7 ?
Hi all,
This may have been asked many times, I have already found quite a large number of posts out there, but found no answer to a simple question -> how can I easily deploy a new version of my site from dev / staging to production (without losing any single piece of user content) ?
I have seen Features, Deploy modules. Smart approaches like this one http://drupal.org/node/181128, well -- all kinds of things, I also know that deployment should be at the heart of D8 with the DOG initiative.
But yet, I am completely confused because as of today, I would like to be able to :
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we have a LIVE website, with active (recurring) paid subscribers...
every month - they get charged on their credit card through paypal.
(so far - all good)
now - while creating the next version, updates, etc -
on DEV - we migrated all live user info and started working with it
(ouch)
and then - all our paid subscribers - got a false message - that their credit card cannot be charged!
my question is -
moving forward, as we are going to have automatic notification on content added, newsletters, recurring payment, etc.
is there any safe method / workflow -
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