I’m Darshan Hiranandani, currently working on a retheme project for a client hosted on Kinsta, but I want to avoid developing locally and give the agency access to the in-progress site. The agency has some spare web space, but I’m hesitant to deal with potential issues between Kinsta and another host.
While I could set up a staging environment within the client’s account, I’d prefer to develop the site on a separate account that the client doesn’t own. Kinsta charges $35/month for an additional site, and I’m wondering if that’s the most cost-effective option or if there’s a better solution.
What do others typically do in situations like this? Is the $35/month worth the convenience, or am I missing something?
Thank you for reaching out!
Unfortunately in that case the only possible option would indeed be to obtain a new plan, so that the current client doesn’t have direct access to it.
So that would require you to purchase a new plan with at least 1 site, which would indeed cost $35 (Single Site Plan - 35k).
Apart from that, there isn’t anything you can do to isolate things, as any other options would still allow them to have access to the site under development.
You mentioned that you didn’t want to try to develop locally, but if you ever plan to, you could try DevKinsta, which is available through https://devkinsta.com.
That would allow you to develop the site locally and “push” the site to any environment of your choice (which could be a Staging environment too).
Apart from that, the only option would indeed be the new plan for the requirements you’ve specified.
Please do let us know if you have any other questions in regards to this.
Have a fantastic day!
I dont even think you can push/pull sites easily between two organisations.
You should try devkinsta for sure., and if you want to give access to your progress to the client, you can look into ngrok (or something with ui like ngroker ), wich is a bit more advanced.
