[kayoone]

yeah that works okay if you only need that, but then comes another project or new requirements and suddenly you run mongodb, redis and some background worker stuff as well and this slowly pollutes your system.

I did it that way for a long time too, but running vms became so convenient with vagrant and all the box configurations you can download that its kind of a no-brainer as long as you have 8Gigs of RAM or more.