Doubts regading personal usage of DirectAdmin for a development environment

[JuanLUX]

Hello,

I'm the owner of a website running on a hosting with DirectAdmin for more than 20 years and I'm very happy with it and used to use DA for regular day to day things.
At the same time I'm developing new features for the site on my private development environment (just a single server on my private network at home with no public IP addresses). In order to have my dev environment as similar as the prod one, I'm thinking on getting a DA license for it for managing all the services (MySQL, Nginx, Apache,...) in the same way and having the possibility on getting a full user backup in prod and importing it on dev quite easily

Does this make sense?, Is this possible?, Any recommendation will be welcomed.

Thanks and kind regards

 

[Daniel-Doggy]

My way of doing it is not 100% the same but it follows a similar idea.

I have 2 DA personal plus licenses for 2 servers that I run as prod. (As it is both prod and development testing on prod.)
On those prod servers I have a domain that end with .dev and a domain that end with .com and thus .dev = testing/staging and .com = prod/live. (But if you do not want to use different domains then adding a 2 subdomains would work just fine as well.)

I host my code in my own self-hosted GitLab instance with self-hosted GitLab Runners so I can do CI/CD stuff.
For deploying to .dev and .com I use the build-in GIT module so I can just trigger a fetch & deploy via the DirectAdmin API.
After my CI-CD succeed then I update my .dev site via the runner and a custom DirectAdmin API intergration.
And finally after I merge to master I update the .com and change the .dev to the same master branch until I create a new development branch.