If something like this could solve the problem of having to deal with redundancy and scaling every time you deploy a growing app, that would be worth using for those purposes alone.<p>Nanobox deploys also require using it as a dev environment, but that's not so bad.<p>Regarding setting up dev environments, from AlternativeTo.net: <a href="http://alternativeto.net/software/nanobox/reviews/" rel="nofollow">http://alternativeto.net/software/nanobox/reviews/</a>
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"On a fresh laptop, our latest dev was up and running with Nanobox - repos cloned, DB imported, local running - in 7 minutes flat. Unheard of."