# Set up a staging server

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**Category:** Sysadmins\
**Tags:** how-to\
**Created:** [May 3, 2022, 5:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-a-staging-server/225951 "2022-05-03T05:24:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-a-staging-server/225951/22 "2023-09-09T08:41:04Z")

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I recently migrted my production forum to S3 and CloudFront. I already had a staging server up-and-running but it’s now out of step with production and S3 because I’m not sure whether I need a separate bucket and CDN connection - I don’t particularly want to incur additional AWS costs just for a staging server. Presumably pointing both servers at the same S3 bucket isn’t recommended? What’s the right way to do this?

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