XAMPP is basically the same thing, and you can even put it on a portable flash drive. More importantly, it's constantly updated. It's what I use for fast development from anywhere. On my main development computer though, I use the full, official MySQL server.Quote:
I`d never host my own web server, paid hosts are the way to go for me (comes out cheaper for me actually, lol), but that is a valid point. For local stuff though I still prefer it. :)