By now, even if you're new to Magento, you should have a newfound appreciation for the power and extensibility of the industry's most active open source e-commerce platform. We've covered just about everything from installation to extending the platform. Your Magento store, if not already online, is most likely ready from a preparation viewpoint.
However, we're not quite finished yet. You may want to undertake a few more options that can make your installation act more like that of a Fortune 500 company — and less like a hobbyist's experiment in e-commerce.
In this chapter, I will take you through four advanced techniques that I feel any bona fide Magento master should have in their own personal knowledge base:
Setting up a staging environment
Versioning your site
The Magento cron
Backing up your database
You may not wish to undertake all of these now, or later, but at some point you will find these concepts helpful in turning Magento Community into an enterprise...