If you’re only dealing with a simple Web site that you develop and deploy in one iteration, you may never have to worry about updating it, or you may be able to get away with hot fixes, straight to the live site. However, once you start dealing with a project of considerable complexity, and one with multiple development iterations, there’s no way around some sort of tiered system for update deployment—unless you write perfect code, in which case you should stop reading my blog and go make a million dollars. (more…)