I use a test site on my same servers (I have one webserver and one database server and use the exact same configuration for my test site). vBulletin allows you to have a test site up and running the same software as long as it is htaccess protected and not 'live', thus no spiders are crawling my test site.
After you get everything up and working correctly on your test site and you decide to upgrade your live site, you should export your styles. That way, when you upgrade your live site, you just import the styles and you don't have to redo all the template mods.
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