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Stan
Stan

Reputation: 38275

Web development production / test / dev environment setup

I am building ASP.NET sites. I was wondering what's the industrial standard to set up prod/test/dev environment. There are 2 approaches I know:

  1. create 3 domains:

    www.mysite.com
    test.mysite.com
    dev.mysite.com

Further question here: is it good to put them all on same machine? or put production one on one machine, and test/dev both on the other machine in private network.


2. use hosts file to point to different machines

1.2.3.4      www.mysite.com  # production server
192.168.0.1  www.mysite.com  # dev server
192.168.0.2  www.mysite.com  # test server

or if I want to consolidate test/dev sites.

1.2.3.4      www.mysite.com  # production server
192.168.0.1  dev.mysite.com  # dev server
192.168.0.1  test.mysite.com  # test server



Can the community advise a more systematic/organize/scalable approach? Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 840

Answers (1)

Mike Cole
Mike Cole

Reputation: 14753

We have a "production" machine and a "staging" machine. Our "development" machine is the local developer's PC. You should NOT put production on the same box as testing and development.

Upvotes: 2

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