What is Rollback?
The short answer
A rollback restores a website to a previous working version after a bad release.
Rollback, explained
Hosts that keep every deployment make rollbacks near-instant, which is what makes frequent releases low-risk.
Questions people ask about Rollback
What is Rollback?
A rollback restores a website to a previous working version after a bad release.
Related terms
To deploy is to publish a new version of a website to its host so visitors see it; modern hosts deploy automatically when code is pushed to Git.
GitGit is a version control system that records every change to a project's code, so teams can work in parallel, review changes and roll back mistakes.
CI/CDCI/CD is automation that checks and ships code: continuous integration runs builds and tests on every change, and continuous deployment releases what passes.
Staging environmentA staging environment is a private copy of a website that mirrors production, used to test changes before they go live.
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