Introduction
Each type of Gravity Forms license has a limit to the number of websites that it can be installed on. You can see the list of those limits by license type in the linked help guide.
Sites in use as “staging”, “development”, “sandbox” etc, generally those being used for development and test and that are not being used for real customer traffic, are not counted against the site limit of your license.
The list below shows what we look for for to identify such a site, and answers the question: “so how does Gravity Forms determine a staging/dev/sandbox site?”.
Regex List
Any site URL matching a pattern here will not be counted for the purposes of Gravity Forms site limits.
127.0.0.1
*.app.github.dev
*.cloudwaysapps.com
*.ddev.site
*.dev.*
*.dreamhosters.com
*.elementor.cloud
*.flywheelsites.com
*.flywheelstaging.com
*.kinsta.cloud
*.kinsta.com
*.lightningbasehosted.com
*.lndo.site
*.loc
*.local
*.localhost
*.localhost.*
*.mybluehost.com
*.myftpupload.com
*.myraidboxes.de (for raidboxes.io)
*.mysites.io
*.mystagingwebsite.com
*.nxcli.io
*.pantheonlocal.com
*.pantheonsite.io
*.savviihq.com
*.sg-host.com
*.stage.site
*.staging
*.staging.*
*.test
*.test.*
*.tribe
*.wpengine.com
*.wpenginepowered.com
*.wpsc.site (for WP Stagecoach )
*.wpstagecoach.com
.wpstage.net
beta.*
corpwebstg.*
dev.*
devsite.*
local.*
localhost*
pantheon-dev.*
pantheon-live.*
sandbox.*
stage.*
staging[number].* i.e. staging10.mysite.com
test.*
upgrade.*
webdev.*
wpdev.*
www.staging[number].* (for SiteGround)