Hey Ben, You may consider virtualizing it. VMWare's offerings are getting nicer and nicer and if you have a decent system around, Xen is also something to check out. -justin
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Ben Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have several different mercurial repos backing instances of our > project, and this works well. We can have different developers pushing their > changes to different instances of th site for testing and then all of their > changes can be consilidated into 'trunk' ready to be pushed to our live > servers.In the case of simple bug fixes we can combine the step of pushing > into trunk and pushing to live as well, so it's a pretty good setup! > > This is great for most cases, however when you get a subtle bug that has > to do with your live environment, it falls somewhat short. It would be great > if we could have a testing setup that mirrors our live setup (which consists > of several servers, postgres failover and some other bits) however it would > be too expensive! > Ben > > On 03/05/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > A post from another thread got me wondering, how many people here have > > their development environments closely mimic their production ones? > > > > Or is it common to have a development, staging and production > > environments ? That way your development environment could be > > whatever is easiest for you to set up on your dev box, and your > > staging could mimic production so you could work out any bugs there. > > > > In theory I would think the 3 environments would provide the most > > robust system for developing, testing and rolling out code, but if > > Django handles the different DB back-ends pretty well then you could > > eliminate the staging environ and speed up your end-to-end process I > > would think. > > > > Any thoughts or experiences you all would care to share? > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Ben Ford > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +447792598685 > > > > -- Justin Lilly Web Developer/Designer http://justinlilly.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
