I remember that getting your blog or website ready and online was much work to do, and takes time to publish the blog online, specially if you have just brought your domain, so probably you will need one or two days to get this domain name ready, this was because new domain name needed to be activated and toke several days sometime, so why not forgetting about local servers and work on web hosting directly?
Activating new Domain Names
Booking a new domain name is much more easier and it works and gets activated FASTER than ever. One year back it toke a bout 2 days to get a new domain activation, then latter some of my new domains got activated and work after a few hours. Today it’s much more faster, and it only take a few minutes for a new domain o get activated and ready to work. I think the secret is the Web Hosting you are using.
I was amazed how fast I can get a new blog online, so what’s the secret? I am not a web hosting techie guy so I can answer this question, actually this is a question for my readers, so if you know why, then explain it to me plz!
Working on Local server or Online?
I can not hide the fact that I don’t like to work on my local server anymore, I don’t have any server running on my laptop, I don’t have PHP on my laptop, nothing!
I actually stopped doing this since more than a year ago, I mean the internet is more faster (I have an extremely high speed internet from ComCast), so if I can get a very good Web Hosting then that’s it, I don’t need to work on my local machine anymore. This is exactly what I need for my testing and development purposes, because I can create a blog in minutes and do some tests and then remove it just by a few clicks!
Why I don’t work on my Local Server?
- I don’t run my work, test it and develop it on local machine server because of this:
- I don’t like to play with local machine settings to match web hosting settings
- Plugins works on local machine and have problems on web hosting server
- I have to immigrate my code and database after finish to test it again online
I don’t work on my local server to avoid problems when uploading my blog or website to it’s host, basically I do web design, HTML, CSS, and some PHP, I create blogs, setup plugins, I like to test new plugins and most of them will probably work on my local machine server but not all of them will work good on my web hosting server, so I prefer to save my time and upload everything to the exact place and web hosting that will host it for ever and avoid immigrating the code and database.
OK! that was me
What about you? Do you still develop your websites, blogs and plugins on your local server?
Article by Hesham Zebida
I create websites, and I develop Thesis Skins. I am a social network lover. I am also the night creature who works hard to keep this project up. Owner and founder of FamousBloggers.net.
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I’m compliantly agree with you Hesham…
Work on the local server is really unnecessary in this days.
Also one of the things that you can’t do on the local server is to continue the job that you started on any computer you want.
My job is much much faster today
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I don’t Build Web Sites at a Local Server. I Build them on Another Servers.
i like Free Servers.
By the way Thanks for the Info.
Do you work via terminal (remote)? Or upload files automatically on every change? Where do you run your development tools? Interesting idea otherwise… I am hosting sites that are under development and it would be insteresting to provide no-setup-required development area.
Lauri, I just use a simple FTP app and update files manually before backup it on server or on my laptop, by this way I avoid mistakes!
Ok, I have used manual FTP/subversion upload when doing a very small updates. But I avoid it in general because of the speed loss.
Twitter: udegbunamchuks
February 13, 2010 at 9:06 am
I’d be lost without my local server as I try modifications, themes, plug-ins etc out on my local server first before modifying my online blog to avoid costly errors
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of course but how you will test your theme (for example) on different screen resolutions?
It probably will work good on your laptop or computer, but will have issues with some people when you go online!
Thank you for being active on our blog yesterday, I read all your nice comments.
Twitter: udegbunamchuks
February 14, 2010 at 4:43 am
Issues with people who have screen resolutions lower than mine is definitely something I’ve tried to battle but in this age, I very much doubt if there are many folks using old systems with low resolutions.
Folks like you who use Thesis theme have got this angle covered I guess
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I don’t have a local server, but I think all developers should at least have a testing or staging server. Once a size gets to a certain size, working live isn’t a smart move. I run two servers myself and my personal blog is on grid hosting. I make changes on a staging server first and then move it across to the grid.
Plugins should work on a local server as well. If its setup correctly there should be no reason why they wouldn’t
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First of all, thank you for mentioning on your rounds!
Some times plugins wont work after moving them to your live site, means they will work on the local machine but will have issues on live server.
Themes also need to be tested on different machines with different screen resolutions, so here is why local server is not the best choice these days!
And this is why it’s a good idea to have a testing domain name on your host, to test your work on the same server configuration, specially for someone like me who don’t like to play too much with servers configurations!
I never worked on a local server. I’ve used Hostgator since I started and they’ve always been super fast…hours, not days.
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Hostgator and Bluehost seems to be great host for bloggers!
Twitter: element321
February 12, 2010 at 3:09 pm
I no longer develope locally. I do have several old computers sitting in storage just for that purpose. But right now. I do everything on the server. I am actually going to buy a test domain, or look for a free one I can attach to my new web host when I get it so I can do some testing.
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Actually a test domain is what we all need!
I have one also, it works real well when you don’t want to test on your primary.
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I also do not work in my local computer anymore — Even my Blogging Lab already online in my web hosting provider.
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Yeah! I think so many people changed their mind about local servers!
I don’t bother with local server. I just work online. Then again, I don’t actually code and I’m guessing those who do may need to test on local servers just to make sure they don’t bring a live server down.
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I don’t code also the way it seems to be, I just modify codes some times!
I think developers should have a copy of any website for testing, and it has to be online somewhere so they will not hurt a live website.
It is great to have server on a local machine. For the last twelve months I’m planning to install it, but mote often than not, I’m just too lazy for some simple tasks.
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Which server you want to run? Apache?
here is a nice link for you that I was using before, install with one click in case you need it Easy PHP
I just upload and changes and view online. I tried the local hosting method, but was never technical enough to make it work!
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Setting a local server actually is not hard thing to do, but seeing a different results and losing time could happen, most of developer are working on local hosts, maybe because before the internet and servers was not available and cheap like today!