We support the following domain formats for staging/development environments. URLs that fit any of these formats will not count towards your license’s site activation limit.
Suffixes/TLDs
- yoursite.dev
- yoursite.flywheelsites.com
- yoursite.kinsta.cloud
- yoursite.kinsta.com
- yoursite.loc
- yoursite.local
- yoursite.myftpupload.com
- yoursite.pantheonlocal.com
- yoursite.pantheonsite.io
- yoursite.savviihq.com
- yoursite.stage.site
- yoursite.test
- yoursite.wpengine.com
- yoursite.wpstagecoach.com
- yoursite.dreamhosters.com
- yoursite.onlinehome.us
Subdomains
- beta.yoursite.com
- corpwebstg.yoursite
- dev.yoursite.com
- pantheon-dev.yoursite.com
- pantheon-live.yoursite.com
- preprod.yoursite.com
- stage.yoursite.com
- staging.yoursite.com
- upgrade.yoursite.com
We’d love to provide support for any staging URL formats implemented by your hosting provider. If your host provides a standard staging URL that we don’t support, let us know.
We are unable to provide support at this time for unique subdomains for staging environments.