[UPHPU] Development Environment

[Wade Preston Shearer]

On 23 Mar 2011, at 18:40, Jonathan Grotegut wrote:

> This is probably obvious and I am sure I know the answer to this, however,
> do people typically setup a dev box and prod box as the same hardware?
> Using a dev box, especially in a team environment, how do you prevent a
> run-away cpu cycle or memory usage due to bad code?  I have done many stupid things while coding that has brought my machine to it's knees.  I shudder to think of doing that on a Prod or Dev box that multiple people use.

That's a good question. I've never had an issue with one developer brining the server to it's knees. Perhaps we've just been lucky.

I have used a production server as a dev server before launch, but I wouldn't continue to dev on that box afterwards. My ideal (and current) environment utilizes three servers: dev & beta, staging, and production.