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Phan
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2017-02-16 18:26:22
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I am a software developer too, and what we do is to do pull the latest copy of the server to our localhost, test server, staging server and do all the test there before posting on the production. No testing should be done on production except if there is no other choice. It is all about good and bad practices and the management willingness to make sure the servers are up and running. if the management really wants no downtime, they can just tell the dev to come up with the staging servers.
as i understand it they use server 17 and 26 as test servers for the patches (i would never do that if it was my call, because of exactly whats happening now), i do agree that it can be done a lot better but i was mainly talking about people who know nothing about running a webservice and doing the maintenance of it
and it is also true that you can never plan ahead for everything if you make your testrun(s17/s26) a few hours before the actual patching process(all other servers)