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...