Building your website in a PC-hosted environment: is it the best idea?
Perhaps you may want to re-think your strategy.
I confess that I’m a forum junkie but I get frustrated with requests for help from others with their I-have-a-problem-with-my-Joomla-on-a-PC-hosted-website problems that I encounter on an almost-daily basis. Discussion forums are great places to obtain assistance or vent one’s personal opinion but, although the more seasoned members of such communities offer their support, assisting people with problems that exist in their own private universe is an incredibly difficult thing to do via a forum.
Wherever I travel—whether my local JUGI must have built hundreds of test sites for establishing the proof-of-concept of a new idea. Some of these sites lasted for less than an hour and some of them ultimately went on to go fully-functional operational ones. or attending Joomla events around the country or the world—our community seems to be divided on the necessity of designing, developing, building and testing websites on a PC-hosted platform before deploying it on the “real” server. I meet people who are more than passionate about their use of PC-hosted sites; they’re almost obsessive-compulsive about it. Whenever I challenge their beliefs—sometimes bordering on fanaticism—about the requirement to undertake their craft in a one-person “world” (usually one solitary personal computer that’s not networked to others), I’m met with the resolute response, “This is the only way and you can’t tell me otherwise!”
