Hello!
I will really appreciate if someone can guide me through “how necessary is a development site (or a clone of your live site in your computer)”.
My main concern is about duplicating work; what I mean is: if you first got to test any change to you website by the means of a development site or local clone, and then applying that change to your live site, you are doing everything twice. How necessary is this? In my case, I wouldn’t change the default functionality of the script, but add some text, probably a static image, titles and headings only (at least for now), so I am wondering if I could do that directly in my live site without risk. This way I could take my time to create a clone in my computer with xampp little by little, and use it further on, when I learn enough to start making improvements.
And if it is possible to start without a development site, could I just download my development site folder to keep it in my computer, in order to save server’s cpu and ram, and re-upload it in the future? Unless the said saving is not necessary, if I will move to PHPFox Solutions and start with a Cloud 2 VPS Plan?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Touchito
I will really appreciate if someone can guide me through “how necessary is a development site (or a clone of your live site in your computer)”.

My main concern is about duplicating work; what I mean is: if you first got to test any change to you website by the means of a development site or local clone, and then applying that change to your live site, you are doing everything twice. How necessary is this? In my case, I wouldn’t change the default functionality of the script, but add some text, probably a static image, titles and headings only (at least for now), so I am wondering if I could do that directly in my live site without risk. This way I could take my time to create a clone in my computer with xampp little by little, and use it further on, when I learn enough to start making improvements.
And if it is possible to start without a development site, could I just download my development site folder to keep it in my computer, in order to save server’s cpu and ram, and re-upload it in the future? Unless the said saving is not necessary, if I will move to PHPFox Solutions and start with a Cloud 2 VPS Plan?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Touchito
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